Examples of homemaker in the following topics:
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- In both the U.S. and Canada, a person in charge of homemaking, who isn't employed outside the home, is often called a "homemaker," a gender-neutral term for a housewife or a househusband.
- Prior to the 1960's, homemaking was a decidedly gender-specific role.
- Many mandatory courses existed for youth to learn the skills of homemaking.
- "Cooking hygiene" may underlie the tradition that a homemaker is portrayed wearing an apron.
- The rise of suburbs helped create the role of housewife and homemaker for white, middle class women.
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- The example set by an individual's family is also important for socialization; children who grow up in a family with the husband a breadwinner and the wife a homemaker will tend to accept this as the social norm, while those who grow up in families with female breadwinners, single parents, or same-sex couples will develop different ideas of gender norms.
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- For example, a child who grows up in a two-parent household with a mother who acts as a homemaker and a father who acts as the breadwinner may internalize these gender roles, regardless of whether or not the family is directly teaching them.
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- Most people, men and women alike, believed that the proper roles of women were as homemaker and mother.
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- However, in most contexts, women are still expected to be the primary homemakers, even if they are contributing to household income by working outside the home.
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- These roles, such as the father as the breadwinner and the mother as the homemaker, are declining.
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- New entrants (such as graduating students) and re-entrants (such as former homemakers) can also suffer a spell of frictional unemployment.
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- Friedan’s book was a best-seller and began to raise the consciousness of many women who agreed that homemaking in the suburbs sapped them of their individualism and left them unsatisfied.
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- Prior to World War II, traditional Hispanic cultural values assumed women should be homemakers.