The workplace is forcing women back to the kitchen, Women's Institute historian claims

Women are returning to domesticity as a cure to the boredom of the workplace and the “horrors of society”, an historian at the Women’s Institute has claimed.

Maggie Andrews, who has written ‘The Acceptable Face of Feminism: 100 Years of the Women’s Institute’ and is a Professor of Cultural History at the University of Worcester, made the claim at the Hay Festival.  

She said the feminist movement was “looking at the domestic in a way they didn’t 30 years ago” and that TV shows such as The Great British Bake Off were making domestic life “sexy” again.

“Both feminism and the Women’s Institute have come together a little bit in that domesticity isn’t such a bad thing as people thought or possibly that the workplace is not as much fun as we all thought,” she continued.