What is it with the title housewife? Although it does feel like it sometimes, I did not chose a marry a house. Our accountant insists on putting “housewife” under “Occupation” next to MY name. I’m a writer, damn it (okay, I haven’t made a cent off of writing in the past year and have just lost our educational deductions because of this pitiful lack of revenue). I used the term domestic engineer earlier in this blog, but that sounds pretentious. I couldn’t engineer myself out of a paper bag. My husband has a degree in engineering, and my kitchen sink has been leaking for over a year (he does abstract engineering, not “I can use a wrench” engineering). So, what term should we use for those of us who work 16 hours a day cleaning up messes, doing laundry, playing with kids, and trying to write a novel simultaneously?
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