The Great Housewife Myth: how a fanciful invention stuck

You’d be considered lazy and idle if you tried to ‘stay at home’

If you have been exposed to the manosphere or a particularly stupid post from an account called something like TradMaleWest or ConservativeTradHeroes, you’ve probably heard the declaration that for “almost all of history, women didn’t work: they stayed at home to cook and look after their husbands and children, and they were happier that way”. This is, I’m afraid to tell you, complete and utter nonsense.