The tradwife debate is really about control

The tradwife has entered the conversation. Instagram showcases her baking bread, doing laundry, and extolling the virtues of domestic bliss—a counterpoint to the girlboss who is always working, and always tired. Is this tradwife-versus-girlboss conflict simply the latest version of the mommy wars of the 1980s and 1990s, when women’s personal choices about paid work and caregiving became public judgements about what women ought to want? Or is it something more? This is what we sought to find...