{"id":13062,"date":"2024-07-16T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holistic.news\/en\/?p=13062"},"modified":"2024-07-17T06:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T04:49:36","slug":"from-boardrooms-to-baking-bread-the-rise-of-the-trad-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holistic.news\/en\/from-boardrooms-to-baking-bread-the-rise-of-the-trad-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"From Boardrooms to Baking Bread: The Rise of the Trad Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Rise of the Trad Wife Movement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Alexia, an influencer known on TikTok as @lex.delarosa, starts her day by baking homemade crounchy flakes with cinnamon for breakfast. Dressed in a white robe, with perfectly styled hair and makeup that mimics a natural complexion, she holds a few-month-old baby patiently waiting as she mixes, rolls, and bakes the dough. When her infant \u201crequests\u201d chocolate cocoa puffs, instead of rushing to the store, she blends cashews and homemade nut cream. If necessary, she would even make crayons by hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexia distances herself from the term trad wife, as she does not want to be pigeonholed, but her videos have become emblematic of the trend. The new, popular term on social media, trad wife, describes a very old phenomenon \u2013 a woman who forgoes a professional career to fully dedicate herself to raising children<\/a> and managing the household<\/strong>. The modern traditional woman differs from the 1950s housewife in that she consciously chooses the traditional gender role division and finds fulfillment in it, believing that her decision is entirely compatible with feminism. After all, wasn\u2019t feminism primarily about providing women with the freedom to choose?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women like Alexia fully embrace their role. Cooking dinner and ironing her husband\u2019s shirt is just the beginning \u2013 these women bake bread, maintain home gardens, raise chickens, sew clothes for the entire family, and most importantly, always look impeccable from morning to night. The traditional wife lifestyle is far from the stereotypical \u201cstay-at-home mom\u201d image \u2013 it\u2019s about flawless hairstyles, perfect makeup, minimalist interiors that sparkle with cleanliness, and aesthetically pleasing activities in nature. Like many social phenomena, the role of the housewife has been redefined to align with the spirit of capitalism<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The High-Heeled Matka-Polka<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Until recently, non-working women were often seen as parasites<\/strong> \u2013 receiving child benefits \u201cfor nothing,\u201d parading with strollers through shopping malls, and begging for free items \u201cfor their sick daughter.\u201d The vision of the traditional Matka-Polka (archetypal Polish Mother) is unappealing: a neglected, unkempt woman, lost in the perpetual chaos of daily life, sleep-deprived, and, above all, exceptionally uninteresting. After all, what else do mothers talk about \u2013 diapers and kindergarten enrollments?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, being a housewife is associated with luxury. How many households can afford for one of their adult members to give up work? The idea of being a traditional wife is alluring, often linked with the concept of a soft life.<\/strong> This means a life free from significant responsibilities, stress-free, and healthy. A life with room for interests, passions, and spontaneity. It signifies opting out of the rat race and rejecting a culture that demands constant forward momentum. Leaving a professional career for the sake of family and home offers the promise of time for morning yoga, midday walks, and green smoothies with parsley from one\u2019s garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, any woman who has had the opportunity to take care of children and the home full-time knows that reality is vastly different from the colorful world of Instagram influencers<\/strong>. Parenting also involves sleepless nights, slobbered-on clothes, and walls scribbled with crayons. Nonetheless, the vision of fully focusing on motherhood can be appealing to women. It implies a reduction in the pool of responsibilities \u2013 at least those related to professional work. And that is already significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We recommend:<\/strong> Not Just Welfare Kings and Queens: Large Families in the World of Stereotypes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not Just Welfare Kings and Queens: Large Families in the World of Stereotypes<\/a><\/blockquote>