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Housewife is a term used to describe a married woman who stays at home to personally raise her children and take care of their needs. This is the traditional role of women at least through the children's pre-kindergarten years. Homemaker is a mainly American gender-neutral synonym for a housewife or a [[House Husband]]. She's often a stock character in [[Dom Com|Dom Coms]] who can generally be identified by being in the kitchen and lovingly counseling her children because she is [[The Heart]] of the family. There will probably be reference to her doing laundry, grocery shopping, [[Feminine Women Can Cook|cooking]], [[Living in a Furniture Store|household cleaning]], chauffeuring, managing the family finances and/or sewing. Her children and husband do like what she does.
If the [[Housewife]] takes pride in her appearance for the benefit of her family, she's also a [[Hot Mom]]. Compare [[Yamato Nadeshiko]], a Japanese cultural ideal where a woman runs the household with a touch of iron as opposed to [[Extreme Doormat]], which is culturally neutral and describes someone who lets everyone 'walk all over them'. Compare and contrast to [[House Husband]], when a man takes the role of homemaker, much to the utter surprise of pretty much everyone in popular media. With a good man at her side she's far from a case of [[Meekness Is Weakness]].
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* {{spoiler|Miyako Inoue}}, at the [[Distant Finale]] of ''[[Digimon|Digimon 02]]''. She's possibly more like Izumi below, of course, given that she has her Digimon help her with the kids.
* Izumi Curtis of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', as she rather emphatically stated.
** For those not familiar, she usually says that in between beating the living shit out of the (''canon'') best elite-foot-soldiers in the story, effortlessly taking down borderline immortal creatures (homunculi) that can regenerate (one of them is the size of a tank, incidentally) and invading a bar filled with multiple chimeras, trained fighters, and a homunculus just so she can chew out her student.
** Chapter 95: "When someone asks 'who' I am, I always say, 'a house-wife.' That's the polite response... But just for today, I feel like showing off a little. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|I'M AN ALCHEMIST!]]"
* Kasumi Tendo of ''[[Ranma ½]]'' after her mother's demise, despite not being married.
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* Mum from ''[[On the Buses]]''
* Diane Coupland from ''Bless This House''.
* Played with in ''[[That '70s Show|That 70's Show]]'': Eric's mother Kitty acts VERY much like one, but she's actually got a job outside the house as a nurse.
** Later on when Red loses his job and she has to work full time she nearly cracks when she finds out Red and Eric still expect her to do all the cooking and cleaning anyways.
* Carol [[The Brady Bunch|Brady]]. Interestingly, she did very little housework, because they had a full-time live-in housekeeper, Alice.
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* Occurs in ''[[Charmed]]'' with Phoebe and a magic ring, directly referencing [[Bewitched|Samantha]] above.
* In ''[[Smallville]]'' Martha Kent can generally be [[Feminine Women Can Cook|found in the kitchen]] especially in seasons one and three and part of two when she's not working for Lionel or running the Talon.
* Amy Matthews of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' acts every bit the domestic one from the beginning usually letting us forget about her real-estate career in the first season.
* ''[[7th Heaven]]'''s Annie Camden studied everything from art to business and economics for the express purpose of running a household.
* [[Roseanne]] threw this image out the window and replaced it with something much closer to reality. They even lampshaded the differences on a clip show hosted by Roseanne and a committee of TV moms who had come to "set her straight."
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** ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'': The mother gave up her career to raise Calvin. She sometimes wonders if she made the right choice.
** ''[[FoxTrot]]'': Andy has a part-time job as a newspaper columnist, but she's mainly a housewife.
** ''[[Baby Blues]]'': Wanda even cried when they asked her to go back to work in one of the early strips. In today's strips, she still has mixed feelings about it, and in the [[Animated Adaptation]] final episode, she wanted to go back to work, only to {{spoiler|change her mind again and go back to taking care of Zoe, leaving the Nap Nook business to Melinda.}}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble from ''[[The Flintstones]]''
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Marge Simpson. She had done a few things like repair work, selling pretzels, being a cop, and other stuff.
* [[The Jetsons|Jane Jetson]] (although, she mostly press buttons all day long to clean the house).
* [[Family Guy|Lois Griffin]], though she does teach piano from home.
** As well as the handful of [[Status Quo Is God|one-episode]] careers she has had.
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