Housewife Issue

Recently, I have read an article from Times, and the content is about “housewives.” According to Times, some women write homemaking books and post online blogs about housewife’s skills, and they are quite popular.

Nowadays, maybe we should define “housewife” in a new way. Before, we might think that a housewife should be enslaved to her husband and should have no financial dependence and no personal recreation and pastimes. However, on one of the blogs, the blogger says that they feel tired and overworked, and they decide to have a new plan for life. In my opinion, to devote oneself to domesticity is not guilt, but a personal choice to live.

Thanks to their articles about how to clean or how to cook, many of us can try to do housework in an efficient way or a creative way. Some of the long lost skills are very useful in ordinary life. We might cheerfully find some knacks to knit a dishcloth or to clean the toilet. The skills can not only help us be smart to deal with the housework, but also give us pleasure and a sense of achievement when we finish our work. I find many of my friends are interested in knitting and cooking, and that shows even in this modern era, women would still like to do some handcrafts for fun or for other reasons. This trend can promote us to think outside of the box, and to think of other possibilities. The author who writes the homemaking manuals says that the blogs and manuals do not mean we’re going retrograde. I think the fashion of housewife is a reflection of the busy life style, and it also shows that doing domestic work well can also be a pride—the repetitive tasks can be an art, too.

I think we are lucky that women can freely choose to be a housewife or to go out for work at their will. Both can show women’s importance and ability. To accept different point of views and life styles can also show an embrace and tolerance of diversity in our societies. No matter what is fashionable, it is good progress.