Housewife - online puzzles

A housewife is a woman whose work is running or managing her family 's home—caring for her children ; buying, cooking, and storing food for the family ; buying goods that the family needs in everyday life ; housekeeping and maintaining the home; and making clothes for the family —and who is not employed outside the home. A housewife may also be called a stay-at-home mother and a househusband may be called a " male homemaker " or stay-at-home father.

Webster's Dictionary 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 small sewing kit is sometimes called a "housewife" or "hussif".

Throughout history, women have usually worked for pay, either by contributing to farming and other family -owned businesses or working for other employers. Housewives were common in developed countries only for a few decades during the middle of the 20th century.