The image is from glamoroushausfrau.blogspot.com.
I suppose I'm a hausfrau myself right now, what with my baby daughter only being eight weeks old. But I prefer the neutral English definition of hausfrau - a (German) housewife - to the more informal one, "a woman regarded as overly domesticated or efficient" (Oxford Dictionary). However, my impression is that the word is far more often used in a demeaning rather than a neutral way. Hausfrau is a term from US English, by the way. And I think you'd be surprised at the number of hausfrau-themed blogs out there on the Web, most of them trying to be at least a little ironic about the term.
The image is from glamoroushausfrau.blogspot.com.
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