Of course she is going to spew bile over such a suggestion--so beneath a female attorney....
But, have you actually tried to darn a sock?
It's hard. There's a whole dying technology to it with 'darning eggs' to stretch the sock out; needles and thimbles and technique to getting the patch to hold, but not rub your foot. It takes time. In time value, it is now cheaper to buy a new pair--it's just another bit of household art that is going away.
I saw my Grandmother do it. Really, if you ever find a woman who is able and willing to darn your sock, keep her; she is a rare gem and worth a dozen female attorneys, writers, stockbrokers or professors!
You know what I'd like to do with my "female attorney" money? Buy you some damn therapy so you could get to the root of your problems.
Exactly what I had in mind, having seen my mother do it. But of course, it's a dying skill not worth the trouble most of the time except as a proof of dedication to... dying skills, which in a grand scale of things is worth more, as you said, than a law degree and certainly ma lot more than Monica Lewinsky's masters degree in something called "social psychology" applauded here a day or two ago..
You ought to read Dorothy Sayers's essay Are Women Human? which points out that women aren't kept in the home as pointless drudgery, but that the rise of industrialization has taken most of the intellectually compelling (and "craftsmanship" requiring) type of skills out of the home.
Tailoring, coloring of clothes; brewing; animal husbandry, etc.
Cheers!
"A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies."
Proverbs 31:10