Housewife

A housewife is a woman whose main occupation is running or managing her family's home—caring for and educating her children; buying, preparing and storing food for the family; buying goods the family needs in everyday life, cleaning and maintaining the home, making clothes for the family, etc.—and who is generally not employed outside the home. Merriam Webster describes a housewife as a married woman who is in charge of her household. The British Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1901) defined a housewife as: "the mistress of a household; a female domestic manager; a pocket sewing kit". A "stay-at-home mother" (stay-at-home mom) is a housewife who prefers to raise her own children at home, with the exception of school, while performing household duties.