In no particular order:
Handy
Thrifty
Clever
Witty
Helpful
Cute
Beautiful
Hawt
Decidedly non-delusional about her sex
Strong
Well-read
Competent
Able to function autonomously but chooses to be part of a team
Discussion
For me as someone from central Europe I'd like even understand what is socio economic background of treadwife term. Is it something that was reality? And in what time period, fifties? Or is it just some "idealized" version of wife from "better times" in general?
Kinda both.
The US is subject to really horrific nostalgia programming, and it comes out like this.
But the real one is from fifties or when? My idea about it was like, ok, we have still men with jobs able to provide for whole family, but on the other hand there is lot of new development in area of taking care about household, so it is not that much time consuming. But I´m not sure if this is correct assumption.
Because we don´t really have such tradition per se. After war when communist took over, every woman had to work, so this never happened here.