The Happy Housewife Thing

The whole idea of a happy woman who enjoyed an idyllic life in the home, tending to her family while her husband did the wage earning labor is just kind of a fantasy, obviously. It certainly did not exist for non white women. And it kind of didn't even really ever exist for white women either, or not the way we've been led to believe anyway. In fact, joe says the entire happy housewife thing was a creation presented by a few spacific pieces of mass media that made its way into the culture and just kind of stuck.