Is sheep husbandry related to housewifery?

This is a question I pondered yesterday over rice crackers and lite hummous (which I adore). Meg (a uni friend) and I were studying for an upcoming assignment, when we somehow got off topic and started talking about my new blog. (Please note the sarcasm - because it takes Megs and I about .03 seconds to get off topic at any given time! Sometimes we are knee-deep in communication theory and Habermas' public sphere blah blah blah, then suddenly we are talking about something random like washing bras while on holidays. I digress, again!). So, back to the rice crackers and hummous, where I raise the topic of my blog and state that I want to discuss all things 'housewifery'. We have a quick debate relating to the fact that I don't know if this is actually a word and that I may be making it up (see earlier post) or is this the type of activity that is related to sheep husbandry?!

This brings me to the here and now. I have just googled sheep husbandry (it’s surprising that google have it as the first option after the word ‘sheep’. Wouldn’t you think it would be something a little less obscure, or further up the alphabet such as sheep breeds or sheep for sale? I don’t know, I’m a city girl!) Anyway back to googling sheep husbandry, it is essentially the raising and breeding of sheep. Isn't that what a housewife essentially does? Well, when they have children they do. I mean they need to herd children into the bath (sheep get dipped), coerce them into the car (sheep need to go into a holding yard), driving them to school (sheep are transported to new pastures - not always greener I suspect!). The similarities are endless!

So have I successfully drawn the conclusion that the two are related? You tell me...