They cook, make babies, and look impossibly perfect while doing it.Tradwives are using social media to redefine femininity and womanhood… or are they just setting it waaaayyy back?

The Tradwives Club was presented by the Sydney Opera House at the 2025 All About Women Festival.

Speakers

Megan Agnew — Senior Features Writer (New York), The Times of London

Rosie Waterland — Comedian, author of Broken Brains (with Jamila Rizvi), The Anti-Cool Girl and Every Lie I've Ever Told, host of podcasts Mum Says My Memoir is a Lie and Just the Gist

Beverley Wang — National Culture Correspondent, ABC and host of Stop Everything! and Life Matters ABC Radio National

Nakkiah Lui (host) — Writer, actor, director, producer, Black Comedy, Kiki & Kitty, Preppers, Total Control and more

Further information:

Meet the queen of the 'trad wives' (and her eight children) — article by Megan Agnew, The Times