Other forms: homemakers
A homemaker is the family member who runs the home. A full-time homemaker, work as a homemaker, the homemaker's day.
It replaced housewife because it says nothing about sex or marriage, and because the work is running a household rather than being married to it. It is unpaid and uncounted: none of it appears in any measure of the economy, which economists have argued about for decades.
1nounhomemakerThe family member who runs the home.
“After the twins were born, he left his job to become a full-time homemaker.”
homemaker is a person.
Home plus maker, an American formation of the early twentieth century.
From home + maker.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA