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Who needs a wife?

Dinner to cook. Homework to supervise. Laundry to wash. Dishes to clean. Floors to vacuum. Bedtime stories to tell.

Competing work-family commitments have led to what Annabel Crabb calls ‘The Wife Drought’. A need for someone, or something, to alleviate domestic pressures as professionals balance their careers with home.

The solution? Smart wives like Siri, Alexa and other pleasant, helpful and perpetually available smart home assistants who can tick off household tasks – with enough energy left to ask about your day.

Checking off to-do lists while getting more free time. Everyone wins… or do they?

In this webinar hosted by Annabel Crabb, Associate Professor Yolande Strengers and Dr Jenny Kennedy will expand on their new book ‘The Smart Wife’ by delving into:

• why the wife drought isn’t going away, and how smart wives could be the solution
• why smart wives are feminised and how they perpetuate gender stereotypes in society
• whether we should trust the expanding numbers of smart wives entering our lives
• how a ‘rebooted’ smart wife could promote a revaluing and queering of wife work.