National Homemaker Day 2023: We honor the people who keep our homes going on November 3, National Homemaker Day. Today is a day to honor all the work that goes into keeping a house running, like cooking, grocery shopping, and fixes that need to be done. No matter what kind of housekeeper you have in your modern family, now is the time to thank and honor them!
HOW NATIONAL HOMEMAKER DAY CAME TO BE
A homemaker is someone in the United States who takes care of the house while their partner works. This term is used for any housewife who works hard to keep their home clean in today’s society. The person who makes the home can also be an adult’s parent or other family member who helps with the kids. On the other hand, in the past, a housewife was usually the wife or mother of the family. Within the 19th century, women were expected to stay at home and keep the house calm for their husbands and children.
At the start of the 20th century, many of the same ideas about how to run a home were popular as in the 19th. However, by the 1990s, more families had both men and women doing housework. In a 1989 study, Adam Hochschild discovered that women still made up the majority of the cleaning workforce and earned more than half of it.
In the 21st century, being a housewife is not a lifelong job like it was in the 1800s. Someone who might stay at home now might want to go back to work later, while their partner will either keep working or decide to switch roles and take over the cleaning. More men are helping with chores and some are even the main homemakers, choosing to stay at home while their wives or husbands work outside the home. There are still more women than men who are househusbands, but the difference is slowly closing as more people reject standard gender roles in favor of ways of living that work for them.
WHAT TO DO ON NATIONAL HOMEMAKER DAY
Do the job
If you want to show your respect for the person who runs the household, do some of the work they do every day. Don’t do anything today. Instead, wash the windows, make the beds, cook dinner, clean the pets, and sweep the yard.
Hire someone to do it for you
Today is the day to honor the homemaker in your life if you don’t have time to do all the jobs yourself. You can hire a cleaner or a chef for the evening. You can look for someone ready to do this kind of work on a website for chores. Just make sure to thank them and pay them well!
Allow your housewife to take a day off
You know the drill: spa days, time to relax, floating tanks, pedicures and manicures. If you want to thank your housekeeper, give them something nice to do, maybe while you do the things they usually do around the house.
THIS IS WHY WE LOVE NATIONAL HOMEMAKER DAY
Each person’s input is important.
Everyone’s work is important, whether they’re working outside the home or taking care of their kids. However, the people who do the work in the home don’t get many MVP awards. Right now is the day to change that.
There are more and different kinds of people living in American homes.
The Supreme Court’s decision to allow gay marriage across the US in 2015 has made more and more American homes break the rules. No longer do people think that being too interested in having children is “less manly” or weak in some way.
We’re all more than just jobs that make money.
That big bonus check or big bank account might make us all glad, but you can’t take that money with you, and love and care don’t always have a price.
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NATIONAL HOMEMAKER DAY DATES
Year | Date | Day |
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2023 | November 3 | Friday |
2024 | November 3 | Sunday |
2025 | November 3 | Monday |
2026 | November 3 | Tuesday |
2027 | November 3 | Wednesday |