Preindustrial households—and early postindustrial households too, depending on the family occupation—were organized in such a way that the wife and mother was the oikodespot—the household manager—and was indeed a housewife, but was also involved in the economic activity of the home. Often, to such a degree that when a husband would die, the wife knew enough about his craft to keep the family business going.

Proverbs 31 also indicates that the righteous woman is righteously submissive AND gloriously industrious.

The 50s era mythic housewife was the result of the postindustrial fragmentation of the family (which spurred first wave feminism) and any man who wants one out of some *RETVRN motivated attempt at subverting the current system* is not reaching back far enough in history. His household will still fall short of the glory it could have otherwise obtained.