displaced homemaker

noun

noun

Canada, US A woman who no longer has a reliable source of income from her husband, as a result of divorce, widowhood, disability, etc.

Peer group support is important to displaced homemakers. The Displaced Homemakers' Network has done excellent work in helping women see that their problems do not have to be chronic.1980, Ruth Harriet Jacobs, Integrating Displaced Homemakers into the Economy, page 14:

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