They Pay You?

The other day an audience member proclaimed to be a professional housewife. Is that just another term for whore?

Does a professional house wife get health insurance and 401K? I think perhaps she a volunteer housewife, like a volunteer firefighter. Or maybe the household intern. A household intern that's not bad. She gets meals, granted she has to prepare them. Unlike other internships there is no photocopying or data entry, sweet. You might even get a movie stipend. Granted you have to go see "Toy Story 8: Tom Hanks Finally Buries the Memory of Jimmy Stuart." I imagine household interning has the worst hours of any internship-- 24 hours a day on call (that kind of sucks.).
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amanda bee said…
Technically speaking, she probably does get a 401K and Health Insurance, assuming she is married to a professional something-other-than-housewife. Community Property, it is called. I come from California, where things are a wee bit more enlightened (we have, for instance, no fault divorce there) but I am pretty sure that even New York is a community property state. So even if he bails, she is entitled to half of the 401k.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:39:00 AM
rachael said…
Thank you Amanda Bee for the info and setting me straight. So you read here first ladies: if you want to get paid as a house wife all you need to do is marry and divorce a professional, but not a freelance professional.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:54:00 AM
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