Salma Hayek was nervous about becoming a housewife at first, but now loves her life.
Actress Salma Hayek loves taking care of her husband Francois-Henri Pinault and the couple's 3-year-old daughter, Valentina, and prides herself on being a top-notch housewife and chef.
"I am a housewife. I cook every night for my husband. I am most definitely a housewife. And a good one, I must say," she said. /node/63916
While the 44-year-old actress sounds extremely content with her life now, she says initially she was anxious about moving to Paris to settle into a new life as a homemaker.
Gwyneth talks about her role as a housewife and the great advice she got from ex Brad Pitt's mom.
As most know, Gwyneth Paltrow has gone from Oscar-winning movie star to movie-star mommy over the past several years. Even though her schedule is crazy-packed—the talented lady is shooting films, doing Glee and basically starting a new career in country music—she still makes time to play the role of wife and mother to her husband, Chris Martin, and their two kids, Apple and Moses, respectively. In fact, Gwyneth is trying to convince us that at heart, she's really just June Cleaver.
The "housewife" title's a misnomer, as only three—Ramona, Jill and Alex—are actually married and Suzy Homemaker-style housewives they are not. But, Season Two of the show's been aflurry with relationship activity: the Countess divorcing, Bethenny on the prowl andevery "wife" tripping over herself for the chance to share dating tips.
Here, we've created a Real Housewives report card with grades based on their own relationships and/or the love advice they dole out to others (er, Bethenny).
There are a bunch of things a married guy just can't do anymore. Sorry.
A married guy can't do a lot of things that his of things that his unmarried friends can. Sorry, that's how it goes. He can't share a bed with someone of the opposite gender, he can't respond for one to an eVite, he can't just throw towels away and he should forget the dutch oven even exists.
Study: "traditional" men who don't want their wives to work get more $$.
According to the Journal of Applied Psychology, in 1979 researchers at the University of Florida asked over 12,000 men and women between the ages of 14 and 22 about their opinions on "traditional" and "untraditional" roles for women. (Of course, middle- and lower-class women have always worked a job or two, in addition to raising kids, but still the idea that it is "tradition" for women to be stay-at-home moms persists.) Researchers checked in with their study subjects three times in the ensuing two decades and found that men, more often then women, held "traditional" ideas about women working outside the home but also that these men tended to earn more. The (slightly) good news? Women with "untraditional" views earn $1,500 more than women with "traditional" views, but that's a small consolation. (That's, like, one new MacBook laptop.)
How to be a submissive, equal rights-loving housewife.
"I'm a female college student and a feminist. I expect equal pay, equal treatment, and fairness when it comes to chores at home. But I have fantasies of domestic discipline. Some days, I'd like to rush home and clean the apartment and make dinner for my boyfriend wearing only an apron. Then I'd appreciate it if he'd find some excuse--something I did wrong--to spank me until I cry before having wild sex with me."
Girlfriend harbors some serious 1950s housewife "Betty Crocker" fantasies, but realizes she doesn't want her relationship to be all Betty Crocker, all the time. The cooking/cleaning/apron-wearing/spanking is a heightened form of foreplay for her, but it looks so much like reality (rather, some people's reality) that she's fearful her guy is going to blend the fantasy into real life
The Daily Mail interviewed Joanne, age 35, who owns some fabulous 1950s get-ups -- but she also doesn't leave the house without lipstick on and won't put gas in the car because it's "so unladylike." She's happy in her apron, stirring up homemade jam and baking cakes for her husband Kevin in their 1950s-style kitchen. Joanne attributes their uber-retro lifestyle to disgust at high-speed society:
According to CNN, a new breed of housewife is emerging: one who's jobless, childless and home by choice.
The stay-at-home wives interviewed said a reduced amount of stress and an increased amount of quality time with their spouses were both the catalysts and benefits of quitting their careers. And for them, kids are either out of the question or on a distant horizon.
Married, white women in New York City don't really work.
According to some data (albeit old data), a lot of married women in New York City don't work. Isn't this a little crazy? Same goes for other large, crowded cities. How is it possible that women don't have to work in these cities? Oh, it's where all of the wealth is concentrated. OK, that makes sense.
The results of a 40-year-long study on housework were recently released from the University of Michigan. Can you guess who does more? No big surprise here: Women do, in fact, know the broom, mop, and feather duster more intimately than their husbands, but the clincher is post-nuptials.
