Housewives are the cogs in the machine that is the American household. From boiling laundry before washing machines ever existed to baking cakes through the ’50s (while fully dolled up), these vintage ...

In the ’50s, the sitcom Leave It to Beaver fashioned its matriarch June Cleaver as the archetypally ideal American housewife. Viewers could expect to find her cooking up a roast in the kitchen, ...

President Biden and former President Trump are both fighting for the suburban woman voter, but she’s no longer the “soccer mom” caricature that gained traction in the ’90s. The label connotes a ...