To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the "market" in which the "workers" find "jobs," and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.
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No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love--except the housewife.
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I call myself a 'domestic goddess.'.
I call myself a 'domestic goddess.'.
I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like read more
I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.
There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the read more
There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.
