Meaning & use
Tradwives
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Women who publicly embrace and promote traditional, domestically focused gender roles, especially online.
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The documentary followed several tradwives who share homemaking content on social media.
Critics debate whether the tradwife trend romanticizes or misrepresents 1950s domestic life.
A note on using this word
A blend of "traditional" and "wives" that emerged as an internet subculture term in the 2010s and remains a topic of ongoing cultural debate.
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