Housewives

Housewife is also a term first used in the 18th century to refer to sewing or mending kit where people usually kept toiletries, and is still used to describe a soldiers personal sewing kit.
Multicultural norms
In agriculture studies, the word "housewife" is occasionally used to refer to the person who does the majority of the chores within a farm's compound, as opposed to field and livestock work.