Oh please, the right is reviving a tired trope about women

Here we go again. A bunch of successful, conservative professional women are telling young women they don't need careers to have fulfilling lives.

- Robin Abcarian, Tribune News Service

All they need to do is avoid college (or better yet, just use it to find a husband), get married, have babies, stay home and live happily ever after. Perhaps you've noticed the proliferation of “tradwife” (i.e. traditional wife) influencers on various forms of social media, or the coverage of conferences like the woefully misnamed Young Women’s Leadership Summit that recently took place in Dallas. A project of Charlie Kirk's conservative student organisation, Turning Point USA, the summit promised to focus on “foundational aspects of womanhood" such as “faith, femininity and well-being.”

The conference drew 3,000 women who, according to reports, were mostly college students or young professionals. They sported pins that read “My favourite season is the fall of feminism” and “Dump your socialist boyfriend,” and they were told by Kirk, “We should bring back the celebration of the Mrs. degree.”

“The left wants women to feel angry and like victims, and like your rights are being taken away,” a 31-year-old influencer named Arynne Wexler told a reporter for New York magazine.