housewifization

English

Etymology

From housewife +‎ -ization.

Noun

housewifization (uncountable)

1. The process by which the division of labor has relegated women to the role of housewife.
   • 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.