Definition of homemaker Homemaker

/howˈmMejˌkɚ/ - [howmMeyker] - home•mak•er

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What does homemaker mean?

WordNet

Noun
homemaker - a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income
		housewife, lady of the house, woman of the house
		married woman, wife a married woman; a man's partner in marriage

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Wiktionary

homemaker (Noun)
A person who maintains the upkeep of his or her residence, especially one who is not employed outside the home.

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homemaker
A person in charge of the management of a home, and who is not employed outside the home.

Wikipedia

A homemaker is a person whose main job is to take care of their own family home and children. Both men and women can be homemakers, but traditionally the job of homemaker has been done by women.

The term "homemaker".

Because it has been the traditional job of a woman to be a "homemaker", a woman who spends most of her time caring for the family home has been called a "housewife". This word is not used on government forms any more, because it is "gender specific language". (A gender specific word is one that tells whether a person is male or female, for example: "Headmistress" is "gender specific", "School principal" is not.) From the 1970s onward, "gender specific" words are regarded as discrimination. The word "housewife" is still used in ordinary speech. If a man is the main homemaker, then the word "househusband" is used for a joke. The word started being used in the 1970s to show that "gender specific" language could sound silly. Other terms that started being used in the late 1900s are "housegoddess", "homeprofessional" and "home and family facilitator".

Traditional societies.

For many thousands of years, men have been thought of by society as the main "breadwinners" in families. This means that it has been the job of men to do work that either hunted food, grew food or earned money to pay for food, while the women have cared for children, prepared food for eating, cleaned the house, and made and cared for clothes.

In societies where people are "hunters and gathers", for