Gendered labor: the Girl Boss & the Tradwife

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If you’re on the internet, you’ve probably heard of the Trad Wife and the Girl Boss. In this episode, we’re discussing gendered representations of labor and how these tropes play out across the Housewives franchises.

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Sources:

[As always] Money Can’t Buy You Class podcast

You’re Wrong About podcast - The Tradwife Rises

Infamous, Inside America’s Biggest Scandals podcast - The Rise and Fall of Glossier, The Wing, and GirlBosses

Leone Robinson - “Is the ‘GirlBoss’ Really Just an Anti-Feminist Commodification?”

Anna Peele, Vanity Fair - “Inside the ‘Real Housewives’ Reckoning That’s Rocking Bravo”