Women in the UK are taking a leaf out of 1963 book, Fascinating Womanhood, and swapping careers for a life of a traditional housewife. But why?

Tradwives UK: inside the controversial housewife movement 

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Women should aspire to an ideal femininity, manipulate men with their ‘feminine charms’ and see wifely subordination as the foundation of a happy marriage

We say to feminists: thanks for the trousers, but we see life a different way 

Fascinating Womanhood courses cover such topics as ‘ideal womanhood’, ‘femininity’, ‘childlikeness’ and ‘understanding, accepting, admiring and appreciating men’

It’s easy to think that a retreat to grandma’s apron is the cure for all our problems  

Tradwife Facebook groups bristle with posts about women who’ve given up work to ‘spoil’ their husbands ‘like 50s housewives’     

Is this a harmless social media trend, up there with Rickrolling and grumpy cats, or a sinister shortcut to Gilead?

I simply think the old ways were better: when men provided and protected and women took care of their men

#Tradwives: A harmless social media trend, or a sinister attack on women's independence?

‘I want to submit to my husband like a 50s housewife’: inside the controversial UK tradwife movement