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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because the main work they're doing is raising kids, not prepping the 6pm martini for when their husband gets home?  If a woman stays home and has no kids, I think that's a housewife.  But housewife sounds dismissive of the work that goes into a SAHM's day -- she's not just doing the ironing thinking of how to please her husband.

-WOH[/quote]

I don't agree with the assessment of "housewife" in such subservient and misogynistic terms, PP.  My mother was a typical, suburban 1960's housewife and not the least bit interested in pleasing her husband as her goal!  She cleaned and cooked and raised five kids - with no outside help - and also had time for coffee with her neighbors every afternoon.  My Dad would come home and she would still be in the same shorts or pants she was in all day.  And then he took over most of the kid duties happily.  My mother reminds me of how my daughter runs her home and raises her children as a SAHM (although she prefers stay-at-home-PARENT)

A lot of women were stay-at-home-moms when people were still calling them housewives.  [/quote]

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