From the front row of a fashion week show, I text my husband who has spent a fortnight solo parenting in my absence: “Spending the next week as a tradwife. I’ll do all the cooking and cleaning.”
He replies after putting our two children to bed: “Lol.”
Homemaker, housewife, stay-at-home mum. In the internet age they are “traditional wives” — a label that comes not without a frisson of culture war, because what doesn’t now? Many in this burgeoning social media tribe — largely American, usually Christian, mostly white and well off — advocate not just for looking after the kids, the cooking and the home but going full Stepford, catering to their partner’s every need as well.
“A man’s home is his castle so
