The “traditional family” financial structure, thanks to Gen Z

Two topics apparently dominated the media during the 2024 presidential elections: the roles of the sexes (male unity epidemic, commercial materials) and economics (the cost of living or, abbreviated, eggs). But these strands may have weaved one novel all the time: the renewed installation of traditional gender roles was Canary in the late capital coal mine, warning that the social nodes of the neoliberal era are the leakage of harmful gas.

As of 2024, Almost half Republican men and a third of the Republican women believe that “women should return to their traditional roles in society,” a cultural recipe that has been popular since only 2022, in part due to the dark expectations of the forbidden youth. This vision was especially attractive to young people, who voted for Trump with record numbers: Gen Z Men Reporting the views of the sexual gender (Like “the man who stays at home with his children is less than a man”) with more than twice the rate of their counterparts. This context makes the unlawful family-friendly proposals-such as the $ 5,000 bonus of the child-looks more evil and vital to restore the single family structure associated with the era of the rest of the American prosperity and dominance.

In the world that built Reaganomal 14 billionaires Now run RoughShod, it is definitely an attractive theory. Will it not be comfortable for those who struggle in modern life fingers if the assumed natural features in the direction of the reproductive system embraced, was enough to raise wages and make housing affordable? But we should not forget why we left the so -called “traditional” family structure behind it in the first place.

The last time the Cold War broke out between the sexes in a battle on these explicit conditions about 50 years ago. Two years after Silvia Federici published her primary work “Wages against Home Action”, a woman called Terry Martin Hekker Take to the presented pages From the New York Times to receive a state of home industry-it is not because it was not compensated for its time and work, as feminists in the second wave suggested that it should be so, but because it felt that a few women choose to do so anyway. Family income trends are studying, “I think I am less than eight years away from being the last housewife in the country.” Betty Faridan, avoid your eyes.

Hekker, author of the book “A Year ago” Since Adam and Eve: Reza of Home Welfare and Motherhood in “The Age of Your Dolk”, was midwife. Her writing has adopted the defensive and united tone, which will be familiar to anyone who has discontent with watching the thorny “Ballerina Farm” response To the Times of London’s article on the modern “Queen of the Bings”. (Whenever things changed ..) Of course, Hooker may not have realized at the time that many of her housewives were entering the workforce not because they had read a prior copy of the bubble machines of “lean”, but because inflation was crawling above and that their families needed another check. In short, for the reasons for people always work: for money.

In the piece, Hacker takes alternating between fun and discontent. Her argument-that the talisman of “doing something of your own” must extend to the home makers, a group that I saw as being at risk Ha Something, but right something. The aspirations of her peers put intimidation in one of the biting arches in particular, as you wrote, “Write,”[There’s no getting even for] Years of bringing in other women’s children after they were thrown into the lunch room, because I have nothing better to do, or perhaps there is nothing better, while their mothers have “jobs”. (Is it connected to a good -intentioned pharmaceutical store?). “

She talked about her children, she wrote: “They were proud of a clean, comfortable and satisfied house in serving a good meal because no one explained to them that the only work that he deserves to do is the one that receives their salaries.” In this matter, it is difficult to say: the work, the work that makes all other work possible, is invaluable – although it certainly is of no value. But the cruel reality of spending contracts from the workforce in our current model – which, as Holker truly argued in 1977 and which remains correct today, only works to be able to find lives in social security records, or that there is a small or non -retirement of the individual and a little opportunity to find a comfortable work at a later time, if one needs to. While married women over the age of 65 are likely to be poor like married men, divorced women are more likely to live more than their counterparts. (A. 2024 Social Security Office analysis Projects that provide credits for careers will increase the monthly interest of the population of the population who live in poverty by 14 %, which is a modest but important step in the right direction.)

Hacker wrote this article in 1977, a time when the American economy stopped. Now -40 years in the great neoliberal experience, in which wages have grown for a long time, most of the federal spending accumulated in the prices of high assets in the sky and the protection of employment became so fragile that there was nothing that was not weak-it was never popular to wonder whether the elimination of the economy that was disposed of, was a trap!). But instead of yearning for strong unions, high tax rates of companies and marginalism, re -purchasing illegal shares, many cling to the overseer and pink image of the fifties of the last century, which works on (Male), where she works on a family, a family, in one family, in administration, house. This is the image that has been influenced today by many right -wing pain on social media, supported by the bonus of the Amazon facades and AdSense (Does the sponsor of St. Betty Durber also have affiliate links?).

This confusion between the Orthodoxy of the sexes with American prosperity is popular for a very simple reason: the policy that refuses to engage in strict economic analysis in the face of equivalent wealth and inequality of income is not an option but to attribute the creeping emptiness of American conditions to cultural interpretations instead. In other words: Do the roles of the sexes againThere seems to be a growing group of Americans to believe, And prosperity will return! In this accountability, feminism made women selfish and unwanted, and men no longer show enough “male energy”, and the result is … stagnation wages?

But the Orthodox sexual role as a solution to economic problems faces the same shortcomings today that it always faces: relying on reporting another person in the long run, a risk -framed financial strategy. Even Reagan, who, as the California Governor, signed the law, was the first “divorce without error” law in the country, knowing that besieging people with marriage was a bad idea. A wide -rang A decrease in the female suicide rate From 20 %. Therefore, allocating imagination to the point that the cultural surrender to this “traditional” vision would fix the economic issues of the nation (will not), and still leave with a proposal that balances the heavy burden of safety in the long term of almost half of the population on the mood of one -legged mood of another person. This is a lesson learning Terry Martin Hakker in the difficult way.

In 2006, she returned to the pages of the gray woman to write tracking The “lost paradise (local section)” is called a bleak update. After its original column faced a copy of the 1970s, she wrote a book and toured the country “Lecture” for “Battle Families” about “Home Link and Home Balance Bonuses”, which enacted a less liquid but paradoxical political interpretation of the Physlis Schlafly. “So I was amazed and destroyed,” I revealed, “When, on the anniversary of our fortieth marriage, my husband came to divorce,” he traded in a “more elegant model.” It was not alone. “There were many disorganized women in my life and their circumstances who married as long as they share my situation.” But the “divorced” was not the correct word to feel – it was “cancellation” more convenient, describing what happened to its credit cards and health insurance and finally its calculation in verification. Her ex -husband took his younger girlfriend to Cancun. She became eligible for Snap’s advantages and published a second title: “Ignore the first book”.

Collective longing for a more stable system is supported, which is currently wandering in Tradwife Tiktoks and behind the University of Andrew Tate’s Hustles, by scaffolding from legitimate criticism. When the United States moved to the dual economy, it has almost done anything to address the issue of care, a decisive component in any society. In the absence of a strong approach and a care system as a public commodity (with the exception of a carrot to reward a child worth $ 5,000), we should not forget the real protection, if it is incomplete, available to us.

For people who want to have children and continue to participate in the labor market, this may seem to use a high -yielding savings or the money market to start providing child climbing expenses before A child was born, to bear some irreplaceable costs. For those who believe that they may want to work inside their homes and provide this care for themselves, this means building terms about marital support in the pre -marriage agreement determines what happens if your marriage (and therefore, the source of income) disappears one day – such as the amount of money you will receive, and when you search for work again.

These steps – as well as those that can help women earn more money without working more seriously than they are already – is the new axis of my book. “The nation of the rich girl“But if there is anything, this situation should teach us in the meantime, the invention of cultural interpretations of material palaces will always determine the shortest sticks for the lowest ability to claim long illnesses. This is an advantage, not a mistake, to see the extreme right for women’s decades.