Thanks to feminists, the trad wife is today a choice rather than an obligation. So it's strange that feminists see trad wives as some kind of anti-feminist. Comparing todays trad wives to the 1950s is like comparing today's technology to the dark ages - completely irrelevant. That is a huge blind-spot for feminists who seem to fear that trad wives represent a slide backwards rather than proof of having moved forward.
My partner is a trad wife because, like most of us, she hated work, all the politics and drudgery and bullshit jobs and asshat bosses and annoying coworkers. Now she does the gardening and cooking and housecleaning and she has never been happier.
And let's not forget that trad wife husbands essentially work FOR them. I work so she can enjoy her lifestyle. Isn't that a feminist's dream?
With just one income in a two-income world, men lose a lot of our freedoms such as accepting a lower salary, changing careers, quitting jobs we hate or are unhealthy, starting a company, or going back to school.
The trad wife discussion needs far more nuance than it receives from mainstream feminists to unearth what I see as a big win for the movement.