She ran the household and held the keys.
The man was often out a Viking or fishing or off pasturing animals.
I am all for a division of labor - but to me that means that a woman is in charge of their area of responsibility.
And I am in charge of mine.
I have no problem with division of labor.
That is not in conflict with a single thing I stated earlier. But if you have a husband he’s the head of the house and if there is a conflict on something it is proper to defer to him, even if that means it’s not the decision you want. He may learn from a mistake that it’s wiser for him to listen to you on certain things because of it.
But you can’t have two people that are constantly at odds with each other on issues and continually fighting to get their own way. That’s not a working arrangement anybody wants to be in and that’s not the way a family works.