For a long time I have seen people on the internet saying, that SAHM/SAHW are the traditional way. The man is the breadwinner and the woman stays at home. It might be because of the algorithm, but it seems to me, that the redpillers and tradwives has increased this idea, and it seems more or less accepted as a fact.
I am a historian and even though I do not have much knowledge in history of the genders I do know, that the idea that women did not work is a glorified myth. The ideal was for a long time that the women should be at home, but that was an ideal. For the vast majority of history both men and women worked. Most families throughout history struggled economically and therefore could not afford keeping the woman at home. I agree that for the aristocracy and the rich the women did not need to work, but it was never the norm.
On farms women would help out with the practical work that need to be done. In continental Europe we have examples of women running their own businesses, in Germany you even have sources mentioning kaufffrauen (female merchants). In Denmark the first woman to finish the education in medicine was in 1885, and in 1889 she started her own medical practice and worked as a general practitioner.
My question is why do people perpetuate both the myth that tradwives are traditional and that women historically did not work?