I had a housewife for a few months. I didn't mind her relaxing while I was at work, but I did mind her blowing through big $$$ on shopping and restaurants, and then complaining about how bored she was.

I have concluded that women have a need for drama and BS in their lives. Many do not understand this.

If women cannot be adequately supplied with it by work or studies or children, they redesign their marriages to get it from there. 

 I am confident that this observation would apply equally to men, but our culture does not indulge them the same way unless they are independently wealthy from a young age. 

 Black women are often the breadwinners in their marriages, actually, because their earning potential is higher than their mens'.

Lots of black women have househusbands. Probably why I know more househusbands than housewives. Housewives without young children are like 🦄 

 Black housewives seem to largely be an artefact of interracial marriages and I suspect their willingness to be a housewife is one reason such marriages are increasing so quickly. 

 Why? Are black women different? 

 Bit of a selection bias, there, since almost all women who aren't raising young children work outside of the home.