If all you wanna do is run / I won’t tell anyone your secret fantasy, Jill Barber sings in her latest track, “Homemaker.” She assures It’s okay if today the only thing you make / Is you make it ...

Maybe it’s just me and my own passel of neurotic (read: socially awkward) tendencies, but when I meet someone and they inevitably ask what I do for a living, I find myself suddenly sweating and ...

Every time I fill out any type of paperwork, I always end up writing “homemaker” in the employment blank. I guess it’s because when my husband and I first got married, that was offered as a choice on ...

According to a Gallup poll, 56% of women prefer to work rather than to be a homemaker, and 75% of men would rather work outside the home. Given the choice between working or staying home to take care ...

Before I started this project, I hadn’t given a lot of thought to the word ‘homemaker.’ Like ‘housewife,’ it struck me as totally retro, the kind of word to be used jokingly (like those cheekily 1950s ...

Before I started this project, I hadn’t given a lot of thought to the word ‘homemaker.’ Like ‘housewife,’ it struck me as totally retro, the kind of word to be used jokingly (like those cheekily 1950s ...