The post-industrial model is not “traditional”.
Traditionally, both the wife and husband *worked from home* because one’s workplace and one’s home were very often *the same place*
Have a shop in town? The family often lived upstairs, or in other rooms of said shop. Have a farm in the country? Again, the home and the family business are the same location.
The traditional model is the one in which both husband AND wife were at home, and historians have observed that *men* leaving the home at the industrial revolution had an effect on families even back then.
Pretty well said.
Take a look out the window in Nature; the Father/Male is the provider, the Mother/Female is the "Nurturer".
Regarding the "Pioneer" days, where farmers were nearly all that existed, the females/wives were tending to the children in the house, while the Father/Male was in the fields. When the children were old enough, they ALL went to the fields. In the case of storekeepers, the Mother/Female would live upstairs, and work in the store ONLY if the children were with her, or, she was upstairs with the small ones.
The necissity-forced situation during WWII was the change, but ONLY when there were no small children left alone at home. In the old "Loco Parentis" legal terms, the School was responsible, as an "acting parent" when women worked, and were HOME when their children were home.
You're probably not old enough to have seen it.