The Good Wife: Cultural approval for women back to work.

The hot new CBS series The Good Wife tells the story of a political wife who returns to practicing law after her husband gets caught toe-sucking and stealing. The show is one of several recent cultural nods of approval to women going back to work. Old-time comeback broads have been making a sneaky return on the big screen, what with the incomparable Meryl Streep as both Anna Wintour and Julia Child in two terrific movies. In the New York Times, we read stories about the struggling sippy cup crowd trading their sandals for stilettos; compare them to Lisa Belkin’s famed “Opt Out Revolution” article six years ago. And on reality TV, iconic supermom Kate Gosselin tries to support the family by filming a pilot for “The View for working moms.”

For more than two decades, educated American women (who are the only ones with a real choice about whether to work or not) were fed a pretty steady diet of tales of the joys of hearth and home. Remember Newsweek’s announcement that (all together now) a 40-year-old woman was more likely to be killed by a terrorist than to find a husband, and by extension a family? In the 1987 movie Baby Boom, Diane Keaton left her job as an advertising executive and went home to Vermont to tend to her dead cousin’s baby. To be sure, no trend is perfectly consistent—1992, after all, was the “Year of the Woman” election in which we stood in solidarity with Anita Hill. But most of the time, the stay-at-home hits kept on coming. Pepsi’s female CEO quits to stay home with her family. She has baby hunger. Other reasons not to work: Toxic nannies. Saintly husbands. Diaper-free toilet training. It was probably predictable that someone would suggest, as Belkin did in 2003, that all this quitting and mothering was actually a new version of feminism—a revolution, no less.

But now back to work looks like a candidate for the new black. What happened?

The economic downturn is a candidate. The American Prospect’s Dana Goldstein reads The Good Wife as an object lesson in the danger of separating one’s self from secure paid work. As labor economist Heather Boushey told me recently, the recession’s impact on families highlights the importance of women’s wages. And there is some statistical evidence that since the economy tanked, women are staying at or going back to work after a period of reduced labor force participation.

Tags: anita hill, Anna Wintour, diane keaton, Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards, julia child, Kate Gosselin, Lisa Belkin, opt-out revolution, rielle hunter, The Good Wife, the princess

Linda Hirshman writes "The Princess" column for Double X and is the author of Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World. Before she retired, she taught Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Brandeis University.

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