Are YOU happy to be a housewife?
'If there's one topic that's divided the Grazia office this week - other than which Mulberry bag to order this season - it's the survey that claims men now prefer a wife who prioritises cooking, cleaning and taking care of the home over anything else,' says Grazia's Assistant Editor Michelle Davies. 'The survey, commissioned by the Yorkshire Building Society, also reckons women have tired of metrosexual partners hogging the bathroom mirror and want a ‘hunter-gatherer' who's nifty in the back garden. Some staff members are horrified by the suggestion couples would actively want to embrace the values of the 1950s, when women wore pinnies and rarely left the kitchen. Others, myself included, don't have a problem with adopting more traditional roles - I've always wanted a hostess trolley! - but only if neither partner is being coerced into it.' So, what do you think? Do you agree with Michelle? Have your say below.
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- I've started to embrace my inner domestic goddess of late - but that doesn't mean I'm ready to give up my day job and spend my days stuffing mushrooms and talking about furniture polish. More to the point, I wouldn't want to spend my life with someone who expected me to. If men prioritse that sort of thing, tough. We've come too far and fought too hard to go back to the 'traditional' female sphere. Come on guys, this isn't the 19th century - don't you want your partners who have more to worry about than the price of washing machine tablets?
I cook. I sew, I knit, I bake bread. I'm also a feminist who was raised by a working mother and saw that a fulfilling life outside the home is crucial if you ever want to be happy within it. It's about balance, for men and women. And I'm not convinced that straight women are getting bored of metrosexual men. In fact, I think they're discovering what we lesbians have known for years - the fun of sharing your bed/house/life with someone who always has a spare face mask if you need one.
Kaite - I just can't imagine myself as a housewife at all - I groan at the thoughts of cooking and chores, and the idea of being stuck at home all day, playing mother, frightens me more than any other. I'm prepared to sacrifice having children and marriage to be a sucessful alpha woman - I want to pay my own bills, buy my own place, live my own life. I don't want to be stood behind a man with a table-cloth in my hands - that could never be me.
BronteMcguire - If only! I would love to stay at home and look after my home, children and husband. I have a full time job and 4 children, I hate not being able to collect them from school, do jobs and washing at some time other than stupid o'clock but I cannot afford to. If I could get a reasonably decent paid part time job I would love to be a hosewife; and I suspect I'm not on my own.
Mummy - Obviously not a typist!!!!!
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