As a professional homemaker, there seem to be two conflicting stereotypes about household labor in society: one that views homemakers as oppressed workers who are enslaved by unpleasant and essentially self-negating work, and another that sees household labor as providing an endless source of creative and leisurely pursuits for women. Through interviews with 40 married homemakers aged 20-30, the author argues that homemaking is the primary occupational role for women today.

Homemakers often feel "tied to the home and socially isolated." Their social lives are often limited to family relationships, and they must also face the repetitiveness, monotony, and fragmentation of household labor. On average, the homemakers interviewed worked 77 hours per week, almost twice the hours of industrial labor. What was originally subjective standards and routine practices that homemakers established for themselves as a source of psychological satisfaction and self-reward has gradually become an external obligation that must be strictly adhered to, making household labor a tedious and endless task.

When it comes to the identity of homemakers, the author uses the concepts of socialization and self to argue that a woman's self-identification with the homemaker role and long-standing gender role socialization are the reasons why women are willing to accept unfair treatment. The external social arrangements fix women in a complete world with traditional feminine qualities, while women's "self-domestication" embeds the consciousness of being a homemaker in their self-awareness, forcing them to accept the social norms imposed on them in a proactive manner.

In the process of forming the identity norm of "homemaker," a mother's upbringing is often a key factor in promoting role awareness. Women of all classes experience roughly the same socialization process regarding family life - identifying with their mother's role as a homemaker and internalizing the belief that "they will eventually become homemakers" themselves. Whether it is the imitation or deviation of a mother's household behavior, it is essentially a different way of self-identification.

The harsh demands of traditional family values have made the phenomenon of "fear of marriage and childbirth" increasingly prevalent in recent years, and more and more young women are unwilling to enter the institution of marriage. Some women's self-awareness is beginning to awaken, realizing the necessity of bodily independence and spiritual freedom for a person, and trying to break away from the traditional life trajectory.

Marx and Engels also proposed restoring women's subjectivity in all aspects, giving them the right to choose and create new lives, and fully realizing their potential. According to Ann Oakley's view, improving women's consciousness is the fundamental driving force for improving their situation. The dedication of most women to the traditional roles of homemaker, wife, and mother cannot be attributed solely to their social background or economic structure, but is deeply rooted in their inner beliefs. In order to change the external structures that oppress women, women's consciousness must first be changed, realizing why they feel the need to do household chores, realizing that as independent individuals, they should have a responsible attitude towards their own lives, and correcting their stereotypical understanding of "women's position" based on gender differentiation

转述为英文文章。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。 被捆绑于家庭、被社交孤立是家庭主妇的普遍感受。主妇们的社交往往狭

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