What is a "traditional woman" ?

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inspired by rupper :D

Answer 1

A woman who raises children and takes care of the house....full-time.

Answer 2

A traditional woman is one who stays home with the kids while the man brings home the bacon.  She does all the cooking, cleaning, child-rearing, sewing, shopping, etc.

Answer 3

Being solely a homemaker and mother in a nuclear family in the suburbs circa 1958 does not constitute "traditional" anymore. In fact, it hasn't for a long time, so anti-feminists need to stop appropriating cetain words as if you somehow have the sole right to use them as your own and to manipulate as you see fit.

Also, you might want to keep in mind there's been a women's rights/feminist "tradition" in the Western world for at least 300 years...if you look at the writings of Mary Wollingstonecraft and others...and you can go back further if you study history.

If you family has a tradition of strong women who pursue their interests and also raise a family too, and you are doing the same, they you are just as much of a "traditional" woman  as the women who choose to focus ONLY on homemaking and childrearing.

Saying that ONLY the woman who marry and have children are "traditional" and are living an acceptable life is pretty limiting.. what about other women who don't make such a choice?

Examples:  what of women throughout the centuries who instead of marrying and having children chose a religious vocation, such as nuns, and who didn't marry or have children because they were "brides of Christ"? Are they not a type of "traditional" woman, too? and what of women who never married because they cared for aging parents or other relatives? or women who were courtesans or geisha...which are traditional in certain cultures? or women who are unable to conceive chilidren?

Answer 4

A woman who follows some sort of tradition.

Any sort of tradition really.  A child of a feminist also being one would in fact be traditional - following the tradition set by their parent.

Answer 5

Any woman that feminists hate

Answer 6

A traditional woman is a woman that likes to look after the kids, house and husband.

Answer 7

I think being traditional is much more about your beliefs than your lifestyle. There are traditional women who have careers and traditional women who are single parents, just as there are women who live a traditional lifestyle (stay at home mothers or homemakers) and are also the head of their household and consider themselves feminists.

A traditional woman is someone who believes that men and women are different and complementary. She believes that a mother's place is beside her children, and that the family structure is important for the children's wellbeing and for society.

As for personality... it differs. Traditional women are often gently nurturing and self-sacrificing but not necessarily submissive.  

Answer 8

In today's vernacular, a traditional woman is one who is as close to the image of the 1950's happy housewife as possible. But when taken literally, it could mean anything. I toast my bagel before buttering it; that's tradition.

Answer 9

A traditional woman is one who doesn't try to take the good things about being a normal woman and make men pay the price for it.

A traditional woman is NOT a Feminist.  A Feminist is an egregious threat to civilized society.

Any woman who is not a Feminist is regarded as normal or traditional.

Answer 10

A lot of women claim to be traditional, but I've found that their definition simply means that they prefer men to pay for everything, and they won't put out on the first date.

Answer 11

A traditional woman prefers domestic activities over office/workplace.  

Answer 12

Traditionalist Woman = A woman who loves her children and family more than she loves her career. Non-Traditionalist Woman = A woman who puts her own selfish needs and career before her family.

Answer 13

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Answer 14

my understanding of it...

Husband is in charge of decisions, and works.

Wife takes care of kids, house and husband

I know in most of the studies about marriage, when they say 'traditional" this is the set up they are discussing.

Other things that seem to go along with it a lot of the time...religious, more then average number of children, and submission to husband.

Answer 15

That phrase describes a female who is acculturated to function socially within Nietzschean Master /Slave moralities and assumes the slave / servant / worshipful / obedient / dependency roles and moralities in her relationships with men.   She is "Traditional" in level of social consciousness.

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Answer 16

Whatever "Tradition" is defined as.