displaced homemaker
English
editNoun
editdisplaced homemaker (plural displaced homemakers)
- (Canada, US) A woman who no longer has a reliable source of income from her husband, as a result of divorce, widowhood, disability, etc.
- 1980, Ruth Harriet Jacobs, Integrating Displaced Homemakers into the Economy, page 14:
- Peer group support is important to displaced homemakers. The Displaced Homemakers' Network has done excellent work in helping women see that their problems do not have to be chronic.