Why are housewife shows so popular with women?

Why? There's like 3000 shows about housewives or women who do nothing all day (see : the 50 Kardashian shows). It never stops. The reality shows about guys are about jobs, anything from moving houses on the highway, restoring things, logging, flying planes or ice road trucking to oil drilling to finding precious gems in the Africa or building bikes or fish tanks. Why are all housewives shows so popular with women? Why not some shows where you do actual work, not just go out for cocktails, shopping and bitch behind your friends' backs ? Could this have something to do with almost all women dreaming about staying at home?

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They all want to be Eva Longoria.

What did you do on your week off, Jamie?

On topic - I don't watch them, nor do I care to get my knickers in a twist about them.

a lot of female ladies do aim to have the "South Fork" lifestyle... shopping & ****ing.

The wife agrees.

Of course your wife agrees, she's trying to validate her own (or your?) choice for her life in becoming a housewife in the face of perceived criticism from other women who she deems 'envious' of her lifestyle, by claiming that most women would make the same choice if able to.

At a moment in history when the American conversation seems to be obsessed with bringing attention to women in the workplace (check out “The End of Men,” or Google “gender paygap” for a primer), it seems a remarkable chasm between what we’d like to see (more women in the corporate ranks) and what we’d like for ourselves (getting out of Dodge). But it’s true: according to our survey, 84% of working women told ForbesWoman and TheBump that staying home to raise children is a financial luxury they aspire to.

What’s more, more than one in three resent their partner for not earning enough to make that dream a reality.

In Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland, according to the OECD, women still work fewer hours and earn less money than men; they also remain a rare sight in executive offices, computer-science classrooms and, though the OECD doesn’t say it I’m willing to bet, philosophy conferences. Sweden, the gold standard of gender equality in many minds, has one of the highest percentages of women working part time anywhere in the world.

Most women don't want to be men , no matter how much brainwashing and gender androgyny vomit your type will submit them to. Nature >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>nurture.

And don't forget gay men .

Because a survey of 1000 American women, many of which were visitors (or rather members of the 'community', whatever that means) on a site called TheBump.com, and the rest of which were visitors to (or again, members of) ForbesWoman's site, is definitely going to be representative of women everywhere. I'm not sure what the demographic is for the latter, but I sure as hell can have a good guess at what it is for the former.

Half of young Swedish mums want to be housewives: study

62% admitted they 'secretly' wished to be a housewife
74% said they felt pressure from other women to be independent
78% said they wouldn't mind being financially dependent on their partner

Men and women appear to be happy to revert to their traditional roles as bread winners and housewives, new research has suggested.

Asked whether, if money were not a worry, they would prefer to stay at home with their children, 55 per cent said yes.

A recent survey by Youth Intelligence, a market research and trend-tracking firm in New York, showed that 68% of 3,000 married and single young women said they would ditch work if they could afford to do so. A Cosmo poll of 800 women said two out of three respondents would rather be at home than climb the corporate ladder.

The average 29-year-old now hankers for a return to the lifestyle of a 1950s housewife. The daughters of the "Cosmo" generation of feminists want nothing more than a happy marriage and domestic bliss in the countryside, according to a survey.