Claire Stevens

So last night there was a 60 Minutes called The Truth About Tried Wives and the Men Who Want Them.

It followed two couples, Amber and Creshy, who have two daughters and embrace pink jobs and blue jobs in their home.

That's an idea that came up on Married at First Sight last season.

And Janae and Austin, an American couple who don't have kids yet, which makes Janae a stay-at-home girlfriend.

Then there's a new Australian novel called The Marriage Trap by Victoria Perman, and it explores the reality of the historical trad wife era and what women have to lose if they return there.

A recent episode of The Rest Is Entertainment also delved into whether trad wives have killed feminism and where the cultural phenomenon really came from.

It's just a conversation that keeps coming up.

What do we think is behind it?

Why are we so obsessed with this idea right now?

But aren't robots devaluing the work of human beings economically?

And so no one's going to be earning enough money to be a single income household?

Thanks, Bob.

Yeah.

Yes, and I think you're right that that bit gets ignored in favour of all the other aesthetic distracting parts of what trad wife life looks like.

What I found really interesting about the Rest Is Entertainment episode where they looked at a bunch of research into this and there was all sorts of polling,

They kind of attributed it to a sense of false nostalgia that basically depicting a lifestyle that never actually existed.

Even what Bob Catter said about women...

for 200 years haven't worked outside the home.

They were able to just have children.

Yeah, I don't think.