转述为英文文章。作为职业身份的家庭主妇 当今思想中流行着两种相互矛盾的对家务劳动的刻板观念。其中有一种倾向认为家庭主妇是被压迫的工人：她在每况愈下、令人不快且本质上是自我否定的工作中被奴役。另一种说法是家务劳动保障了无止境的创造性和休闲性的人生追求。以这种观点来看家务劳动不是工作而是持家而家是宝库。 经过对40名年龄在20-30岁的已婚已育家庭主妇的访谈安·奥克利认为家庭主妇是当今女性的主要职

As a professional housewife, there are two conflicting stereotypes about housework in today's society. One view holds that housewives are oppressed workers, enslaved by the unpleasant and essentially self-negating work they perform. The other view is that housework provides an endless source of creative and leisure pursuits, and is not work, but rather the management of a treasure trove called home.

Based on interviews with 40 married and child-rearing housewives aged 20-30, Ann Oakley argues that housewives are the main occupational role for women today. "Being tied to the home and socially isolated" is a common feeling among housewives, who must also deal with the repetition, monotony and fragmentation of domestic work, while being socially deprived. The average working time of the housewives interviewed by the author was 77 hours per week, almost twice that of industrial work. Domestic standards and routines, originally subjectively determined as a source of psychological satisfaction and self-reward, have gradually become objectively standardized external obligations, making housework a boring, repetitive and endless job.

In discussing the identity of housewives, the author adopts the concepts of socialization and self. She argues that women's self-identification with the role of housewife and their long-standing socialization into gender roles are the reasons women are willing to accept unfair treatment. External social arrangements fix women in a complete world with traditional female qualities, while women's "self-domestication" roots their self-awareness of being a housewife, forcing them to accept the role standards imposed by society.

In the process of forming a normative identity as a "housewife", maternal upbringing is often a key factor in promoting role cognition. Women of all classes experience socialization learning about family life in roughly the same way – by identifying with their mother's role as housewife and internalizing the belief that "they will eventually become housewives themselves". Whether imitating or deviating from their mother's domestic behavior, these are essentially different ways of identity recognition.

Today, feminism is flourishing in academic circles, and various serious academic works on women's studies are entering the public eye. More and more literary and film works are glorifying housework, and traditional perceptions of household division of labor and social gender norms are gradually being broken down.

Marx and Engels once proposed that women should regain their subject position in all aspects, and be given the right to choose and create a new life, and fully realize their potential. According to Ann Oakley's view, raising women's awareness is the fundamental driving force for improving women's situation. Most women's dedication to the traditional roles of housewife, wife, and mother is not only due to their social background or economic structure, but also rooted in their own beliefs. In order to change the external structure that oppresses women, women's own consciousness must first change, realizing the attitude they should hold as independent individuals, and thus correcting the stereotypical notions of "women's status" based on gender distinctions