housewifery

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: house=wif=er=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

housewifery, n. 

 The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

housewifery, n.
1 housekeeping.
2 skill in this, housecraft.

ROGET THESAURUS

housewifery

Conduct

N conduct, behavior, deportment, comportment, carriage, maintien, demeanor, guise, bearing, manner, observance, dealing, transaction, business, tactics, game, game plan, policy, polity, generalship, statesmanship, seamanship, strategy, strategics, plan, management, husbandry, housekeeping, housewifery, stewardship, menage, regime, economy, economics, political economy, government, execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record, course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding, role, process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating, method, path, conducting, strategical, businesslike, practical, executive.