Women should not vote

WOMEN SHOULD NOT VOTE

SurEconomics staff, July 2026

In July 2026, at a hall in Texas, several women said they were willing to give up their right to vote, while others proposed something as unhinged as “let my husband vote for the whole family.”

It was a women’s summit organized by a US conservative group and led by Erika Kirk, widow of the assassinated political activist Charlie Kirk, and by influencer Savanna Faith Stone, among others, who openly declared they would give up their right to vote in order to secure a return to “traditionalism.”

Until that day, being a tradwife (traditional wife) was barely a noticeable and even outdated internet trend: homemade bread, modestly covered dresses with skirts below the knee, spotless kitchens... Faced with such a proposal to surrender women’s suffrage, public reaction was immediate: more than 1.3 million people discussed the topic on social media, with an overwhelming majority opposed to women losing the vote.

If the tradwife thesis were realized, women would not only stop voting but would also have to leave outside work to take care solely of household chores, child-rearing and “caring for the husband.” This would be catastrophic: global gross domestic product (GDP) would suffer an immediate collapse and shrink by at least 40%.

Institutions such as the World Bank note that the global economy depends critically on female labor, so its absence would paralyze consumption, production and services worldwide. Women account for between 40% and 47% of the global formal labor force, and their sudden exit would destroy entire industries. Sectors such as health, education, retail and services would be left without staff, triggering massive and immediate business and store closures. With almost half of global wages lost, private consumption would plunge and governments would see a severe contraction in tax revenue.

This would not only send the world’s economy back to the mid-twentieth century, but would also deprive us of advances and discoveries made by women in various fields: radioactivity (Marie Curie), the laser for cataract surgery (Patricia Bath), leukemia treatment (Gertrude Elion), countless drugs and surgical techniques, the technology behind Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, internet calls, and the calculations that made GPS possible, to name a few.

Sources

·       Staff. “What is the ‘tradwife’ movement and what lies behind its rise?” El Financiero, July 15, 2026.

·       “Tradwife and household voting: the social media debate that reached millions of users.” La Silla Rota, July 16, 2026.

·       Martínez, Danae. “‘Tradwife,’ what it is and its debate online.” El Mañana de Reynosa, July 13, 2026.

·       “‘Trad Wife’ movement and one vote per family: how the ideology that undermines women’s rights reaches Mexico.” Infobae, July 16, 2026.

·       “Majority on social media rejects the ‘Tradwife’ model that limits women’s vote.” La Silla Rota, July 16, 2026.