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Topic: Gender Roles

A new study trumpeted by Fox News promotes a brand-new definition of "tradwife" that sounds like the worst of all worlds: women having to work and handle all domestic responsibilities without any help at all. (Deagreez/Getty Images)

Gen Z doesn't want to be tradwives

Amanda Marcotte
Elon Musk envisioned a future with optional work and irrelevant money thanks to the domination of artificial intelligence. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

MAGA loves bad dads

Amanda Marcotte
Secretary of Defense of Pete Hegseth and his wife Jennifer in Warsaw, Poland on Feb. 14, 2025. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto) (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Pete Hegseth's wife plays his babysitter

Amanda Marcotte
1950s smiling housewife at stove giving happy husband a taste of her cooking (Getty Images/Debrocke/ClassicStock)

Gen Z tradwife bros need to go

Katie Gatti Tassin
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Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Watters and Sean Hannity (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Tariffs won't make MAGA more "manly"

Amanda Marcotte
50's Housewife holding a mixing bowl (Getty Images/inhauscreative)

The "tradwife" trend isn't real

Amanda Marcotte
Shakira attends the 24th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards at FIBES Conference and Exhibition Centre on November 16, 2023 in Seville, Spain. (Juan Naharro Gimenez/Getty Images)

The problem with Shakira's "Barbie" take

Gabriella Ferrigine
Still from "Modern Family"

Why are sitcom dads still so inept?

Erica Scharrer - The Conversation
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"The Handmaid's Tale" (Hulu/George Kraychyk)

The Handmaid’s Tale & Descent of Man

Ian Hesketh - The Conversation
Amy Klobuchar, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Tulsi Gabbard (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Power in numbers

Elizabeth C. Tippett - The Conversation
Brett Kavanaugh (AP/Shutterstock)

Kavanaugh and masculinity

Michael Kehler - The Conversation
Womens March Seattle (AP/ed S. Warren)

Teen boys: Still sexist after all that

Amanda Marcotte
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In this March 21, 2017 photo released by ABC, co-hosts, from left, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Sara Haines and Jedediah Bila appear on a monitor during a broadcast of "The View," in New York. The unquenchable thirst for chatter about President Donald Trump has changed the dynamics of a fierce daytime television competition much as it has in late-night TV. "The View" has spent more time talking politics with the arrival of a new administration, stopping the momentum of its rival "The Talk," which sticks to pop culture. (Lorenzo Bevilaqua/ABC via AP) (AP)

TV has an early impact on these ideas

Common Sense Media - Common Sense Media
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Media sexism fuels abuse

Virginia García Beaudoux - The Conversation
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The toll of downplaying girls worldwide

Jarrett Lyons
Playboy Bunnies, 1966 (AP/Anthony Camerano)

The complexity of Cold War masculinity

Chelsea Barnett - The Conversation
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gendering jobs

Sarah Thebaud, Laura Doering - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

learning gender roles

Caroline Knorr - Common Sense Media

Miss Vera talks gender roles

Amanda Marcotte
Jaden Smith (AP/Evan Agostini)

Asha Parker
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Billy Procida

Talking with the "Manwhore"

Jenny Kutner
(Funny or Die)

Jenny Kutner
(AP/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin)

Jenny Kutner
(AP/Jim Cole/Vanity Fair/Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Salon)

Caitlyn vs. Hillary: Who wins?

Andrew O'Hehir
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