"Housewife" vs. "homemaker" - English Language & Usage Stack …
WEB1a married woman whose main occupation is caring for her family, managing household affairs, and doing housework: the traditional division of labour between the husband as breadwinner and wife as housewife. I am not just a housewife, I am an accountant, nurse, negotiator, cook, driver. homemaker noun. chiefly North American.
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WEBApr 9, 2018 · Maybe twenty years ago it would have been a fairly neutral term, but now it is considered too freighted. On the one hand, some consider housewife too passive; people in that role may prefer the more active and gender-neutral homemaker, or stay-at-home mom/dad/parent if they are caregivers for children.
A possibly modern derogatory term for housewife
WEBAug 2, 2020 · What I want to say is tied to the way I wrote the character. After the failed marriage, she battles depression, she bounces back and starts a career in science. She sees her previous choice of being a homemaker as stupid and the career empowers her. Being a housewife feels like a prison, hence the "freedom of choice" bit.
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WEBApr 26, 2016 · I've come across homemaker, but it seems to be more American English than British English. Domestic engineer is well known as an example of a politically correct inflated job title, but is fairly rare ( rarer than househusband ), and I suspect mostly talked about, or used ironically, rather than used seriously.
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WEBApr 12, 2015 · Homemaker just sounds a bit archaic, and per O.L.D.'s definition not necessarily implies skills in the specific areas mentioned. Just concerned that today's youth wouldn't necessarily relate to or fully understand that term as many of these skills are becoming lost arts. –
Is there a difference between a maker and a builder?
WEBMay 23, 2019 · I would say "piano maker" is most defendable. "Builder" has connotations of "assembly or accretion of pre-finished parts", and also of items which when built are either fixed to the ground or rather larger and heavier than a human would normally handle.
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WEBFeb 2, 2017 · The only problem with this: by all means, "breadwinner" is the person who works. You could sau, Hoai is asking this: "In Asia, the father is the breadwinner and the wife is the homemaker. Nowadays in the USA, this often varies.
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WEBApr 25, 2011 · I tried to find the etymology of the cliche "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" on the Internet, but so far I haven't had any luck. It won't even tell me if it's a maxim or not.
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WEBOct 10, 2014 · There is a girl in my lab who, despite having been corrected numerous times in the past, continues to disregard the lab procedures regarding chain of command. She constantly goes over supervisors' ...
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WEBDec 6, 2015 · 1. It would be better to not use the ellipses (...) to join the quotes. Perhaps, try to integrate it in your sentence. You could write: In response to the new handle, some people claim they "hate it" and say that "it spills everywhere" and that it is "very hard for kids to pour." For more information on how to integrate quotes into your writing ...