Tradwives Are the Harbinger of Systemic Breakdown – Kristin R. Ghodsee (Everyday Utopia) explores the darker elements of the Tradwife phenomenon, and how it is being informed by our current political and economic context. “AI will soon eliminate many jobs. There is a pressing need to prevent high unemployment that could cause social chaos. Promoting traditional gender roles with separate spheres of work, paid labor and unpaid domestic labor, has the beautiful effect of shrinking the formal labor force when jobs are disappearing. It’s likely that some of the powerful people promoting traditional gender roles realize this.”