I think we don't talk enough about this. I'm neutral on the previous distribution of work, but I think it's very unfair what the society is doing to women now. Workers have never been paid so low in a lot of countries in purchasing power of something essential which is housing, while women have never worked that much in a lot of countries. And it's a choice societies made, because work could pay more, and everything else could pay less. Rich countries don't lack of wealth, they just distribute it differently, and when women started to work, they decided they wouldn't distribute as much wealth to workers anymore.

Even if we assume that they didn't before (which is not really true to start with, for the overwhelming majority of the population), I don't see anything wrong with the fact that women now have to justify their value to society like everyone else.

The problem is the fact that any couple, of any combination of sex or gender, now cannot afford a decent life without 2 full time salaries (or more, in many cases. That's a bad result of natural market forces that should definitely be addressed.

Women absolutely did work, but it was unpaid, so it wasn't tracked.