Yes, that is quite sexist when considering that I am a woman who IS a wife but that is precisely why my title is what it is.  I was a STAY-AT-HOME wife for many years due to young children and then my husband's employment outside the US that did not allow me to work.  I know of what I speak.

I am defining wife as someone who is the helper doing the necessary life things that must be done for a family but also may involve the other partner's job.  As noted, I did that for years.   It is a full time job. 

Now that I am in a full time profession as a realtor, rather than the "wife", things slip throught the cracks.  Recently the insurance supplied by my husband's company disappeared for everyone but him because a mailing required response that we apparently did not supply.  We needed to verify that the individuals on his health insurance plan were still eligible.  In our household, if it is not a bill, we generally demote mailings to non-urgent, and after a period of time they are eliminated.  Junk mail is the enemy and I purposedly avoid realtor mass mailings for cost, ecological, and annoyance reasons.  I prefer my business to come from word of mouth and am fortunate now that most of it does.  It was either that the notice was demoted to junk mail status or the 3 times in 6 months that our rural mailbox was downed by hooligans, eliminating mail delivery.  We're not sure.

I envy those male colleagues of mine who have full-time wives at home, and if I knew any, I would envy those female colleagues who have full-time husbands at home.  I don't believe this is generally a two-way street though.  I feel, despite my family's incredible efforts to pull themselves up and fill the gaps of my absence and coordination, that this is a challenge not yet completely met, at least in my household.  It's not for lack of trying, just for lack of knowing, or training, as one mother accused me of years ago.  Older teens and grown men have eyes and stomachs too.  It should all be obvious, particularly with my reminders.

Again, back to the sexist part, when I see my male colleagues still in the office at 7 PM knowing they have younger children, I know many of their life needs are being met by someone esle.  Someone who picks up the kids, feeds them, puts them to bed if necessary, perhaps opens the mail and pays the bills, almost certainly cooks, shops, and cleans for the family.  Perhaps there is hired help to do some or all of those things, but in our market now in Michigan, I am thinking no.

Maybe it is just the stage of life I am in, one child in college, one readying to go to college, one devoted to academic scholarship for college.   I need a wife!  There will be no salary or benefits.  Anyone want to apply for the job?  Must love cats....