VICE offers young women four dream lives: tradwife, girlboss, digital nomad, or trophy wife. Its headline declares that Gen Z women are “obsessed” with becoming tradwives, based on a survey asking respondents to choose among those four possibilities. But women have been making lives through work, relationships, motherhood, friendship, and commitments that change over time. These are not positions on a spectrum between girlboss and tradwife. Giving women four caricatures and counting their preferences tells us something about the menu’s imagination. So, shut up, VICE.
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