Trad Wives: solution or symptom?

Emma Scrivener  |  Comment
Date posted:  6 Nov 2024
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Trad Wives: solution or symptom?

A postcard depicting a woman ironing in the 1930s Source: Flickr | Steve Shook

In an age of progress and increasing gender equality, one movement might strike us as profoundly counter-cultural: Trad Wives. It’s a modern movement that claims to go back to basics - but does it go back far enough?

Let’s start with a definition.

What Is a Trad Wife?

At first glance, the term 'Trad Wife' may appear synonymous with stay-at-home motherhood, but it runs deeper than that. This lifestyle choice is a largely American phenomenon, popularised on social media and existing in conservative spaces. Unlike stay-at-home mums, the trad wife movement rejects modern forms of feminism and embraces traditional gender roles - or at least the ‘traditional’ roles of 1950s White America.

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