Good Wife's Guide

The manual for the good housewife is a text to the effect that a rumor is to be published on 13 May 1955 in the journal Housekeeping Monthly. He describes how a good wife should behave. The text was distributed together with seemingly authentic pictures by e -mail, first in the English language under the title The Good Wife 's Guide, and later in the German language area.

Given the lack of evidence of great doubt as to the origin of the item specified have arisen, so that must be assumed that there is an e-mail hoax or an urban legend.

In the article settings are represented with respect to gender roles that are incompatible with the equality between men and women in line.

Authenticity

Investigation confirm the suspicion that it is included in the booklet is a hoax (joke ) is. The website snopes.com According to the caption "The Advertising Archives " section at the right edge of the image of the English version of a hoax, since the corresponding archive was founded in 1990. There is also described that the existence of the magazine " housekeeping monthly " could not be confirmed by the authors. It should also be read there that the image used by a 1957 erschienenem cover of John Bull magazine comes. One other Internet source, according to the text circulated at least since the 1980s by fax.