As a professional homemaker, there seem to be two conflicting stereotypes about housework in society: one view tends to believe that homemakers are oppressed workers who are enslaved in unpleasant and self-negating work; while the other view believes that housework guarantees endless creative and leisure pursuits in life. After conducting interviews with 40 married and parented homemakers aged 20-30, the author believes that homemakers are the main occupational role of women today. As a daily experience for most women, housework consumes their work opportunities in other areas.

"Being tied to the home, socially isolated" is a common feeling among homemakers. Their social lives often revolve narrowly around family relationships, which means they are not only isolated from community life but also isolated in a broader sense from normal family life. While facing social isolation, they also have to deal with the repetition, monotony, and fragmentation of housework.

The average working hours of the homemakers interviewed by the author were 77 hours per week, almost twice as long as industrial working hours. The low self-efficacy and job burnout caused by repetitive work diminish the self-esteem of women. In addition, the household standards and routine that were originally subjectively formulated by each homemaker as a source of psychological satisfaction and self-reward have gradually been objectified into a strict external obligation, making housework a tedious, repetitive, and endless job.

Regarding women's identification and positioning of the housewife role, the author believes that women's self-identification with the homemaker role and long-standing gender role socialization are the reasons why women are willing to accept unfair treatment. External social arrangements fix women in a complete world with traditional feminine qualities, and women's "self-domestication" embeds the self-awareness of "being a homemaker" into their self-knowledge, making them passively accept the role norms given by society.

In recent years, the harsh demands of traditional family concepts on women have led to an increasingly prevalent phenomenon of "fear of marriage and childbirth." More and more young women are no longer willing to enter the marriage hall. Some women's self-awareness begins to awaken, realizing that the necessary elements of being a human being are physical independence and spiritual freedom, and they try to break away from the traditional life trajectory.

Marx and Engels believed that women, who have been overlooked in the social historical process, are the main driving force for promoting social progress along with men and should restore women's subject status in all aspects, giving them the right to choose and create new lives and fully tap their potential. However, the author believes that women's self-awareness is the fundamental driving force for improving women's situation. The majority of women's dedication to traditional roles such as homemaker, wife, and mother cannot be simply attributed to their social background or economic structure, but rather rooted in their own beliefs. In order to change the external structure that oppresses women, women's self-awareness must first change, realizing why they feel the need to do housework, realizing that as an independent individual, they should hold a responsible attitude towards their own lives, and correcting their stereotyped understanding of "women's status" based on gender distinctions

润色文章。作为职业身份的家庭主妇 关于家务劳动社会上似乎存在着两种相互矛盾的刻板观念:一种倾向认为家庭主妇是被压迫的工人在令人不快、本质上是自我否定的工作中被奴役;另一种观点则认为家务劳动保障了无止境的创造性和休闲性的人生追求。经过对40名年龄在20-30岁的已婚已育家庭主妇的访谈作者认为家庭主妇是当今女性的主要职业角色。作为大多数女性生活中的日常经历家务劳动消耗了女性在其他领域的工作机会。

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