housewifery

noun

1. (dated, uncountable, usually)The state or activity of being a housewife; household management, domestic skills.

   “Meronym: housework”

   “When the schoolmaster got back Sue was making a pretence of doing some housewifery as if she lived there.”

   “"How you've forgotten," she cried, and ran up to him, rattling her keys and looking grave with housewifery, and I was left alone with the dusk and the familiar things.”

   “[…] drafted by circumstance at too soon an age into a pinch-penny housewifery which might have existed just as well upon a lighthouse rock […]”

2. (obsolete, uncountable, usually)Synonym of household goods.

   “Holonym: householdry”