Stupid question but what's a housewife?

Question

Kane C, shut up I want to do paleontology lecturing at a Uni when I'm older and that pays well and also why would I have a husband when I'm L*****n/M2F transsexual but transsexual really has nolt to do with me having a wife.

If I ever have kids though I wouldn't give up my job, I'd probably just work part-time, I'd like to be a housewife but I also want to keep my job when i'm older, so...

Answer 1

I agree with amazing woo...a lot of great answers here.  It's a woman who does five jobs, works hard and is underappreciated by society today.

Without them, our nation would not be great.

Today it has gotten too expensive (bills) to have most women stay home.  So we have become like Russia.

Answer 2

The same as a househusband, but different s*x.

Answer 3

I am not a Christian (take a look) but you are a freak.

freak1 (frēk) pronunciation

n.

   1. A thing or occurrence that is markedly unusual or irregular:

this is you my friend.

Answer 4

You should join the circus or a freak show.

Answer 5

"House" + "Wife"

Its a woman married to her house.

Insulting, isn't it?

That's why this term is no longer in contemporary English language usage.

It has been replaced by "homemaker".  My favourite one "domestic engineer" you don't hear to much these days anymore either, lol!

Answer 6

All I can say is OMG ! sounds like having kids is going to further complicate an already strange and complex lifestyle.

Why would you be interested in such an archaic term ?

Answer 7

If a woman stays at home to look after the house and any children she is classed as a Housewife. Normally she will have given up a career and contributes to the relationship by providing a stable base for the family.

This can also be done by a man and he becomes a househusband.

Answer 8

Dunno. Stay at home mom?

Answer 9

A House wife is a woman who stays at home to look after the baby/ or children while the husband goes to work.

They usually take care of the day to day running of the home.

These days it is common to hear of a 'house husband' as well.

Answer 10

People have already explained it, so hear are examples:

Lucy from I love Lucy

Martha Stewart

That robot from The Jetsons cartoon

Alice from the Brady Bunch

other stay at home moms.

Like others have mentioned, there can be househusbands as well.

The person whose username is god, please get a new name!

Answer 11

she is a wife of the house, now a days you dont get houses in ample, so you find examples of common house wife.

Answer 12

a woman who doesn't work apart from in the home eg. minding the children and cleaning the house!!

Answer 13

a wife thats job is to stay at home and  cook, clean, bake etc.

Answer 14

someone who stays at home and look after the house, does house work, cook all the meals etc or/and takes care of children whilst the husband/partner goes to work

Answer 15

a wife that doesnt go to work she stay at home cooks the dinners does the chores and looks after the kids, does the shopping!

Answer 16

A woman who stays at home, minds the kid/s, does all the housework, cooking, shopping, etc etc.

Answer 17

A home maker, stay at home mum, a woman who does not get paid for her work ....,my Mum was a house wife and she worked dam hard to provide a lovely ,warm ,happy family home and bring up 4 kids whilst my Dad had paid employment.

Answer 18

Stay At Home and clean and looks after the kids because there husband has a good job

Answer 19

a wife that stays in the house

1) cook

2) clean

3) look after kids

4) looks after everyone else

5) scrubs toilets

Answer 20

A housewife is the mistress of a household.  In times past, it was a position of some responsibility, since running a household was not an easy matter in pre-industrial society.  Here, for example, is what was expected of housewives in Tudor England, as described by Alison Plowden in 'Tudor women'.

'In an age when self-sufficiency was no fad but a stern, practical necessity, the proper care and management of a household offered a highly-skilled, challenging and responsible occupation.  The average housewife was expected to brew the family's beer and  bake its bread as a matter of course, to spin, weave and make up the wool and linen cloth for clothes and household use.  She must know all the techniques for preserving food - how to cure bacon and hams, to salt the meat from the autumn slaughtering which must last through the winter, store apples and vegetables for the long months when no fresh produce would be available, make jell;ies, conserves and pickles to vary a monotonous diet and help to conceal the taste of anything that was going "off".  The housewife who failed to plan her winter stores adequately would know the ultimate shame of seeing her family go hungry.  In most households the rush or wax lights which provided the only illumination were made at home, and so was soap - a laborious process involving mutton fat and lye, obtained from wood ash.  Washday itself was hard labour, steeping and then beating the heavy linen sheets with wooden bats, before bleaching,smoothing and folding.  Not surprisingly, this immense effort was undertaken only every three months or so.  The dairy was always a good housewife's special responsibility, and she had to know enough about animal husbandry to be a judge of a milch cow.  She did her own milking, reared the calves, made her own butter and cheese.  She looked after the poultry, carefully hoarding feathers for pillows and mattresses, grew her own vegetables, herbs and flowers, and all this on top of the daily chores of cooking, scrubbing, sweeping and caring for her children.

Any housewife worthy of the name would have a general knowledge of sick-nursing and rudimentary doctoring, and this in turn often meant a wide knowledge of the medicinal properties of plants and herbs.  In many families recipes for salves, cordials, poultices, possets and other sovereign remedies were handed down from mother to daughter, and some women with a special gift or interest in the subject would experiment on their own account.  The really dedicated housewife also found time to embroider her linen and bed-hangings, distil perfume, make wines and syrups,potpourri and pastilles to be burned in a sickroom or to sweeten the air.'

With the coming of industrialisation, mass-production etc, the housewife's role ceased to be so demanding.  Nowadays most housewives do not have to weave their own cloth, make their own medicines, or preserve food to last through the winter.  Nowadays, it's pretty much down to cooking cleaning, and looking after the children.  Most women seem to prefer to be out at work, and good luck to them, but I prefer to be at home.  I remain breathless with admiration for the housewives of the past, but I'm jolly glad I don't have to do all

the things they did.  I like having the leisure to enjoy my children's company and to look in on yahoo answers now and again.

I depsise the insipid term 'homemaker' and refuse to use it.  'Housewife' has an ancient and honourable history.

Answer 21

A minimally-endowed, house-bound husband!

Answer 22

a wife that stays at home and does not work.