by Too much work in our Protestant Work Ethic culture, but only the wealthy can afford to have housewives. The current toxic always-on work culture must be understood as a key factor facilitating the rise of this retro-movement. As overload work culture has become common in many developed countries, governments have also been cutting vital resources that help support families and communities. Combined with entrenched gendered social norms, the burden of care disproportionately falls on women. Even relatively privileged women therefore find it difficult to live up to the popular feminist ideal of “work-life balance”. The Conversation Tradwives: the women looking for a simpler past but grounded in the neoliberal present
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Too much work in our Protestant Work Ethic culture, but only the wealthy can afford to have housewives.
The current toxic always-on work culture
must be understood as a key factor facilitating the rise of this retro-movement. As overload work culture has become common in many developed countries, governments have also been cutting vital resources that help support families and communities. Combined with entrenched gendered social norms, the burden of care disproportionately falls on women. Even relatively privileged women therefore find it difficult to live up to the popular feminist ideal of “work-life balance”.
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Tradwives: the women looking for a simpler past but grounded in the neoliberal present