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A housewife is a woman whose main occupation is running or managing her family 's home —caring for and educating her children , cooking and storing food, buying goods the family needs in day-to-day life, cleaning and maintaining the home, making clothes for the family, etc.—and who is generally not employed outside the home. Merriam Webster describes a housewife as a married woman who is in charge of her household . The British Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1901) defined a housewife as: "the mist
The related term homemaker has almost the same meaning but is not limited to women and does not connote marriage.
Some feminists and non-feminist economists (particularly proponents of historical materialism ) note that the value of housewives' work is ignored in standard formulations of economic output, such as GDP or employment figures. Housewives work many unrecorded hours a week, while depending for money on their husband's or partner's employment.