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housewifization en · NOUN

Etymology

From housewife + -ization.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The process by which the division of labor has relegated women to the role of housewife.
    • What the experts call flexibilization of labour, some of us have called the housewifization of labour. 1986, Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale, Zed Books Ltd., page 16: