Rachael D. Robnett In The News

PsyPost
Mate-value refers to a person’s overall desirability as a romantic partner. According to the researchers, as women have gained economic independence and surpassed men in college attendance, women are less reliant on men for financial security. Men who lack a college degree now face steeper competition in both the job market and the dating pool. This perceived loss of status and romantic insecurity, the authors suggest, generates resentment toward feminism and women’s equality.
K.S.N.V. T.V. News 3
Gloria Steinem, a leading figure in the fight for women’s equality in the United States, has died at the age of 92. Rachael Robnett, director of the Women’s Research Institute of Nevada at UNLV, discussed Steinem’s legacy.
The Story Exchange
As evidenced by the popularity of "Yesteryear," a subculture of "traditional wives" is making big waves in the culture wars.
Vanity Fair
Inside the "tradwife" phenomenon: social media, cinema, and books: but what's behind it?
The Guardian
A cottage industry of women are selling courses aligned with a conservative movement that claims feminism is the source of women’s discontent
Kleine Zeitung
For the first time, a study has examined the "Tradwife" trend. Instead of the expected "benevolent paternalism," the study leaders encountered enormous devaluation of women.
Futurism
The tradwife aesthetic, as it’s sold to women, is easy enough to understand. In our world of social media addiction and dead-end wage labor, it can be tempting to find comfort in the sourdough fantasy of post-war soda ads: a retreat to a simpler, if not archaic, time in recent history.
Telegraph
Women thrive on the liberty, autonomy and freedom to make their own way denied them by this regressive movement