Mother of the family.
There is a category of women who by virtue of character or upbringing and nowadays consider that the main duty of a woman and the meaning of her life is a family, and work is a secondary aspect of life that can easily be neglected. Russian housewives who have opted for a family are often guided by such considerations.
These women devote much time to the home, often addicted to cooking, needlework, have or want two or more children, if the family budget allows. It is to such women that one can always come for advice or a recipe, they have answers to almost all questions concerning everyday life. They know what to feed her husband, so as not to change how to treat a cat and how to calm a child.
Women's home in housewives of this type is hidden deep or forgotten. First of all, they are mistresses, mothers, somebody's daughters and sisters, and then only friends and just women. This is the main drawback of Russian housewives of this type. Often in relations, they lack the share of respect that exists between the more demanding and less self-sacrificing people.
Western option.
It's no secret that for many years we have been trying to become like Europeans, changing our way of life and thoughts, priorities and goals. Those Russian housewives, who took for the ideal image of a standard American family, adhere to Western standards.
These are active women who leave work and often have a successful career in order to properly nurture children and take care of their husbands. Our women try not to focus only on pots and diapers, but they take the example of happy American women who have a hobby, which often becomes an additional income. They are more confident in themselves, because they perceive their role differently. They are not just housewives, but educators, cooks, economists and psychologists in one person, they do not just have to cook and clean up, but plan their family budget, resolve conflict situations and develop and organize family leisure.
How successful is the image of such a housewife in our everyday life, it is difficult to judge. About such women can not be said that their whole life is subordinated to the requirements of the family, although, of course, it is the family that is central to their lives.
Losers and opportunists.
No less often among Russian housewives, there are those who refused to work and care for the family not from altruistic beliefs or vocations, but because of the banal laziness or inability to manifest themselves in any area. Many people try to deny the reasons why women become housewives, but this group of women is easily distinguished from others.
They can hardly be called good housewives. If the income of the husband in their house allows the order only when the servants tried, in another situation these women do not want or can not perform the simplest housework. Often they have many activities that are not related to the family and children. These women have neither satisfaction nor pride in their social position, since in fact they are very difficult to classify as housewives, since they are engaged in an extremely small business.
But, as soon as there is such a niche, as those women are in demand, for whom the opportunity to work neither in the family nor elsewhere is the main advantage in choosing such a way of life, we can conclude that this has its pluses .
Russian housewives are not one type of women. Each of them makes a choice in favor of the family for their own reasons, sometimes this is a compulsory measure, sometimes indeed a vocation or consequence of love and willingness to sacrifice much for the good of the family. It happens that women become housewives temporarily, until children grow up, this is the most common option. Basically, women are interested in working and achieving success not only in the kitchen, but also in other areas. But it is necessary to say that men appreciate those who conquer career peaks and those who improve in the development of home economics, which means that mutual respect, love and satisfaction depend not only on what the woman does.