What is the job description for a SAHM?

[JuneBugJen]

Just wondering... what would be written in the job description for a SAHM apart from looking after the children?

I have a lovely friend who doesn't think that housework and cooking are part of being a SAHM as she is often cross about her DH hoping for the house to be half way clean and to have supper made.

Just before there is a tirade against him, he is not a neanderthal, he leaves the house at 7am and is not back till 7pm and at the weekends is a real hands on dad.

I have kept quiet about whether housework etc should be 50:50 with parents like this. I kind of assumed during the times I have been a SAHM that pretty much the running of the house is down to me with DH helping out. Is this old fashioned now?

When did we stop being 'housewives' and become 'SAHMs'?

This is just out of interest!! I have no strong views either way, I just wondered what everyone else thought.

SAHM duties: all cooking, cleaning, childcare (inc. homework and inviting friends to play), school walk, dog-walking, dishwasher-ing, washing, ironing, mending and so on.

FTWDad's duties: lawn mowing, taking stuff to the tip, putting bins out, bathing children (if home in time), fetching takeaway pizza if SAHM can't be bothered to cook again, incinerating garden rubbish with the children's "help" at weekends, taking children swimming at weekends, making cup of tea for SAHM to have in bed on her own on Sunday mornings.

Very straightforward!

In theory, anyway.

Everyone is happier if they know exactly what their jobs are...