noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Desperate Housewives
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
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Mrs Susan Smith, 25 years old , housewife .
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One was a 68-year-\#old lawyer, the other a 73-year-old housewife .
■ NOUN
role
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For this reason an assessment was made for all the forty women of their levels of identification with the housewife role .
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A second possibility is that social ranking of wife or housewife roles varies with different socio-economic contexts.
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The performance of the housewife role in adulthood is prefaced by a long period of apprenticeship.
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There are also indications from other sources that women's basic allegiance to the housewife role is not class-dependent.
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This would be evidence against the present finding that identification with the housewife role is not differentiated by class.
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This suggests that the personal identification of women with the housewife role weights the balance in favour of a psychological involvement in housework.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an actor turned politician/a housewife turned author etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A warehouse foreman's wife says: I mind writing housewife on a form.
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And more than half the women interviewed hate the label housewife because it sounds so patronising.
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But are housewives happy with their lot?
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But the addition of paid work to the housewife's activities does not mean that she is no longer a housewife .
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Is she to give up being a housewife , put the children in a day-care centre and take paid work?
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She didn't want to take him back, she hated the idea, but she was a middle-aged housewife .
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She was an Ohio housewife with three kids when she got the idea to write a funny column for the local newspaper.