housewife

And in an era where women were forced into gendered stereotypes – housewife, temptress, fallen woman, mixed-up girl – she satirised and sent up those roles, playing them to the hilt while emphasising her strength.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

In 1899 Kate Chopin’s novel “The Awakening,” about a mutineering New Orleans housewife, challenged conventions of marriage and motherhood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Even before her husband’s death and her takeover as CEO of TPUSA, she was a highly-educated career woman only playing at being the demure housewife for his audiences.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

With a smartphone strapped to her head, Indian housewife Nagireddy Sriramyachandra films herself slicing mangoes to train AI-powered robots to take on household jobs in the future.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

“I’m afraid,” says local housewife Amelia Lopez Gamboa, who corrals her family inside her one-room brick house and bars the door.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

German defence giant Rheinmetall on Sunday sought to smooth over a row caused by comments from its boss comparing Ukrainian factories producing drones to "housewives" making weapons in their kitchens.

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

At one point housewives were admonished not to shake their dust mops outdoors lest that contribute to smog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

Britain's first Winter Olympics gold in 18 years had been won by a group of Scottish housewives in an odd little sport.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

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 ● Nov. 12, 2025

The tree whose leaf umbrellas had curled around, under and over her fire escape had been cut down because the housewives complained that wash on the lines got entangled in its branches.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith