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Apparently We’ve Crossed Peak Tradwife
When a trend gets its cautionary tale, its Hollywood adaptation, and a billionaire’s endorsement all at once, that’s the signal
One of the biggest tradwife influencers… is no longer a wife. A bestselling novel about the darker side of tradwife culture is heading to Hollywood. And Jeff Bezos claimed this week that AI could usher in a world where one person in a family works three days a week – while the other stays home. Tradwife life is changing, but the future being promised still looks remarkably like the past.
I’m not exactly surprised.
The answer, as usual, is likely found somewhere in the middle.
This isn’t new. We women have been pitted against one another over the question of how we should live for decades. Ambitious women who went out to work did so at the risk of their family life. The woman who stayed home was narrow-mindedly wasting her education and potential. One was too all-consuming and career-focused, the other too short-sighted to see how she was putting herself at peril. All were being measured against somebody else’s idea of what women ought to be.
We have been having this debate for so long that we don’t always immediately see how much it has changed shape, without ever…
