housewife• Is she to give up being a housewife, put the children in a day-care centre and take paid work?• But the addition of paid work to the housewife's activities does not mean that she is no longer a housewife.• She didn't want to take him back, she hated the idea, but she was a middle-agedhousewife.• But are housewiveshappy with their lot?• And more than half the women interviewed hate the labelhousewife because it sounds so patronising.• She was an Ohio housewife with three kids when she got the idea to write a funnycolumn for the localnewspaper.• A warehouse foreman's wife says: I mind writing housewife on a form.