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JoseyMontana 3 points ago +3 / -0

Housewife was an entry-level term of the nobility. "Wif" means female in the Anglo-Saxon language just was "were" mean male ("werewolf").

A Husband was a "housebond" (a bondsman or free man) that owned his own home, i.e., the Man of the House.

His woman was therefore a "house-wif" or literally, the Lady of the House.

Homemaker is the job description of a servant formerly called a maid.

Chalk another unfortunate win to 1970s feminzais like Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

https://boyscoutingis4boys.org/2019/01/04/unsexing-the-boy-scouts-1977-report-on-sex-bias-in-the-u-s-code/