Are Kay's transitions from subservient wife to manipulative mother to assertive woman for real?

The adoring, subservient wife of "Father Knows Best" is a relic of the past.

By day, outside, she was a completely subservient wife; by night, in privacy, she had things her own way.

Hardly a subservient wife, she helped manage his career, run his house, and screen his guests.

Laura has been a quiet, obedient, practically subservient wife.

It's the difference between men who want a subservient wife or an independent one.

It appears, nevertheless, that Elvira was a very devoted, if not subservient, wife.

This indicates River's knowledge of Saffron's true nature, though at this point Saffron is still playing the subservient wife.

Their wives, subservient back home, were encouraged to study, seek work and open bank accounts, ending the men's monopoly on family finances.

Her world is confined to being a doting mother to her three children and a subservient wife to her chauvinistic husband Omar.