The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.

During the Second World War women had replaced men in many predetermined 'masculine' work roles in industry and agriculture. However, in the post-war years women were encouraged to remain at home and by means of housework, cooking and child rearing, to aspire to the notion of 'homemaker'. Ideal domestic relationships, environments and activities were promoted as a crucial part of a stable post-war society.

a factor affecting the changing nature of the family, the belief that biology is destiny, that women's capacity to reproduce and that they are smaller than men in size means that men are and should be superior to women. The belief that family and individual life is most fulfilling when experienced in a private household where women are chief homemakers and caregivers. Also associated with the idea that women have moral and temperamental qualities that are best expressed in the personal and domestic sphere of life.

the quality of being domestic or domesticated; "a royal family living in unpretentious domesticity"

domestic activities or life; "making a hobby of domesticity"