During the Soviet period, there were conflicts regarding the traditional housewife versus the emphasis on equality within the sexes.

It does bother me that Cathy's not a traditional housewife.

After marrying Matsumoto she ended her career and started to live as a traditional Japanese housewife.

"On one hand, she is the modern working woman and on the other, she is still the traditional housewife."

The young family had a very hard time, they were financially poor and Soshana didn't want to live her life as a traditional housewife.

Despite this, she - or her handlers - still feels the need to project something of the image of a traditional housewife.

A traditional housewife and mother, she kept herself busy nurturing her family and friends.

Sometimes, he would even go as far as to stoop to emotional blackmail to get Maude to be a more traditional housewife.

Examples of the heavy work that a traditional housewife (homemaker) in a rural society would do are:

One day she was a traditional housewife with a husband and two children in this town northeast of San Francisco.