Yes, likewise the title of MOM means more than spreading your legs and popping out a kid. If that is all the woman is doing - then all that she has accomplished is incubation.
Yet that is rarely said of women.
More commonly, the woman is portrayed as the deserted heroine by default, with the man being cast in the role of callous deserter by default, regardless of the reality of who the man and the woman actually are as individuals.