housewives

A housewife (also known as a homemaker or a stay-at-home mother/mum) is a woman whose work is running or managing her family's home —
housekeeping, which includes caring for her children; cleaning and maintaining the home; making, buying and/or mending clothes for the family; buying, cooking, and storing food for the family; buying goods that the family needs for everyday life; partially or solely managing the family budget; — and who is not employed outside the home (a career woman).Webster's Dictionary defines a housewife as a married woman who is in charge of her household. The British Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1901) defines a housewife as "the mistress of a household; a female domestic manager; a pocket sewing kit". (A small sewing kit is sometimes called a huswif,: 115 housewife or hussif.)

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