The Stigma of Being a Housewife

STOCKHOLM — When the Swedish journalist Peter Letmark tried to track down a housewife for a series on 21st-century parents in the newspaper Dagens Nyheter recently, he failed.

"Housewives," he explained, "are a near-extinct species in Sweden. And the few who still do exist don’t really dare to go public with it."

Checkout this article that asks the question "When it is no longer socially acceptable to be a housewife — or homemaker, in modern American parlance — has feminism overshot its objective?"