The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, and was accompanied by a live performance music video, taken from the 1993 CBS special Women of Country, where Carpenter was accompanied by Emmylou Harris, Kathy Mattea, Patty Loveless, Trisha Yearwood, Suzy Bogguss and Pam Tillis.

In the chorus's bridge, Carpenter describes the housewife's having worked for 15 years without a raise, and now has a minimum-wage job in an office typing pool.

[2] Music critic David Browne, writing for Entertainment Weekly, observed that the song's subject tied into a recurring theme on Come On, Come On of "women caught between tradition and contemporary roles who realize that the solution lies with their own inner resolve".

[4] The music video – a live performance of the song with backing vocals by (in left-to-right order when looking at the stage) Emmylou Harris, Kathy Mattea, Trisha Yearwood, Pam Tillis, Patty Loveless, and Suzy Bogguss, was taken from the CBS television special Women of Country with Bud Schaetzle as director, which was filmed in 1993 and premiered early the next year.

[5] The single became Carpenter's fifth top ten hit on the Billboard Country Airplay chart, where it peaked at number two the same month.