Tradwife trend: nostalgia or step back for women's rights?

Tradwife trend: nostalgia or step back for women's rights?

Gießen, Deutschland - The Tradwife movement takes up modern social media such as TikKOK and Instagram both a nostalgic and a worrying trend among young women. This movement, which is derived from the term "traditional Wife", celebrates the traditional role model of the housewife and mother and propagates a retreat into clear gender roles. As the Giessener Anzeiger are looking for more and more women in today's complex world that they are in to find this supposedly harmonious lifestyle.

The romantized role of the housewife

The aesthetics of the Tradwife movement shows perfect images of everyday life, where the baking of bread and pampering the partner are in the foreground. These representations seem to promote a reserved, peaceful existence and often roam the associated social and political challenges. In the romantized perspective of this time, which is often reminded of the 1950s, many women find an expansion of their identity, which they fulfill in their role as the person responsible for household and family.

But as the Zeitjung , this idealization harbors deeply grinding problems. Critics emphasize that such a view can not only drive women into economic dependency, but also devalues ​​alternative lifestyles and serves patriarchal narratives. It is feared that there are dangerous right-wing extremist ideologies behind this trend that add a political agenda to the simplifications of the Tradwife life model and thus endanger the achievements of feminism. It remains unclear how long this trend will last and what real effects it has on society.