Paging June Cleaver:…

Paging June Cleaver:

They are the generation of women who grew up expecting to have it all. No longer forced to choose between children and a career, they were set to embrace superwomanhood by doing both – while holding down a perfect relationship and keeping a spotless home in their spare time.

But modern woman has taken a reality check. The average 29-year-old now hankers for a return to the lifestyle of a 1950s housewife. The daughters of the “Cosmo” generation of feminists want nothing more than a happy marriage and domestic bliss in the countryside, according to a survey.

Research into the attitudes of 1,500 women with an average age of 29 found that 61 per cent believe “domestic goddess” role models who juggle top jobs with motherhood and jet-set social lives are “unhelpful” and “irritating”. More than two-thirds agree that the man should be the main provider in a family, while 70 per cent do not want to work as hard as their mother’s generation. On average, the women questioned want to “settle down” with their partner by 30 and have their first child a year later.

Could the promises of modern feminism have been empty? Looks like working outside the home hasn’t necessarily been the truly liberating thing for most women. There’s nothing wrong with it, of course. I don’t believe that all wives, or women in general, should fit into identical roles in all circumstances. But I wonder if the idea of the “domestic goddess” mentioned in the article was made too much of a hard sell by feminists who determined their success by counting the number of women who eschewed traditional roles rather than by counting the number of women who simply exercised their choice of roles, traditional or otherwise. Seemed to me that choosing the traditional role was looked down upon, thus the hard sell. Apparently, buyer’s remorse is setting in for some folks, or at least they’re seeing how it turned out in the previous generation and don’t like the outcome.

Interesting.

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