Ny trend: kvinnor vill vara hemmafruar

A recent study published in the Psychology of Women Quarterly found that while females of Generation Y are more accepting of working mothers, there is an increased desire among them to stay at home, compared to the generation before. Thirty-two per cent of millennials in the US believe men are best suited to be the breadwinners and women the homemakers. This figure is up from 27 per cent in the 1990s.

In Australia, there is a similar subset of young people with traditional attitudes towards the role of women in the household and workforce. Dr Jennifer Baxter of the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) reports there is a significant portion of 15-29-year-olds who agree with the statement: “It is better for everyone involved if the man earns the money and the woman takes care of the home and the children.”
Sophie, 25, and her husband Leon came to an agreement very early on in their relationship that she would stay at home while he worked full time and studied. She is proud to be called a housewife, but admits, “These days, it’s a bit of a dirty word. Stay-at-home wives and mothers are very underappreciated.” Despite the ‘stigma’, Sophie sees motherhood as “the most important job anyone could have” and is happy raising her one-year-old son, Charles, at home.
Belinda, 25, is also happy for her husband Nigel to be the breadwinner in the family, while she looks after their children, Alexis, five, and Brock, three. “Let’s just say he doesn’t have much patience and gets bored very quickly,” she laughs. “He is happy working and I have always wanted to be home with the kids.”
Kirsty, 29, is another millennial grateful to be in a position where she can stay at home with her children, Isla, three, and Axel, one, while they are young. She describes motherhood as her true calling and says, “I’ve always been a very maternal person, even when I was a little girl.”
It’s curious that a subset of young women in 2016 — a time when females are so strongly encouraged to get a university education, join the workforce and climb the corporate ladder — would rather be at home than in an office. So why are these Gen-Y women choosing to stay at home and nurture the future generation?

According to a 2013 AIFS report, many mothers are choosing to avoid that stress, with 57 per cent of couple mothers opting out of a job. Dr Baxter confirms: “Australia’s female employment rate is lower than the OECD average through those childbearing years.”

Sophie says no. Strongly. As a proud feminist and housewife, she sees feminism as having the choice to be whatever you want to be, whether that’s a homemaker or a hydrometeorologist.
Cox sees feminism as not having to make a choice at all. “The whole point of feminism is to not be forced into making choices according to one’s gender.”

So what are they watching, and why? "I don't want to admit this," says Stacey Oliver, 18, "but part of me aspires to be like them. I know they're completely objectified and that all they do is go shopping and get their pictures taken and go to restaurants. Still, a part of me thinks, 'I want to be really pretty and rich and be able to travel everywhere.'"

2) Dessutom är det ett problem för samhället att kvinnor sitter hemma istället för att jobba och bidra till ekonomin.