Housewifization

Origin

housewife + -ization

Full definition of housewifization

Noun

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