housewife

Example Sentences

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Nina is also under social pressure to keep up with her fellow wealthy housewives’ habits, such as giving speeches to the PTA.

From The Wall Street Journal

Its purpose was to care for "twelve poor feeble and impotent old men and four old women" who were looked after by a housewife responsible for cooking, cleaning, and general care.

From BBC

Credited with helping to ignite second-wave feminism in the 1960s, the book claimed that many middle-class, college-educated women were dissatisfied being confined to their roles as housewives and mothers.

From The Wall Street Journal

She mostly focused on raising her two daughters and being a housewife, according to South Africa's Daily Maverick news site.

From BBC

British actor Pauline Collins, who earned an Oscar nomination for her turn as the stuck-in-a-rut housewife of “Shirley Valentine,” has died.

From Los Angeles Times