No. That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that before Industrialization disenfranchised the work of women, Provider and Protector was a shared burden. When we lived pastoral lives, even children contributed to necessary tasks for the family survival and were recognized and appreciated for the work they did. You see it in documentation and stoeies from the time, not that there was a lot of fanfare about it, but people didn't need that attention then.

Everyone knew their value AND the value of other family members. There are stories.

With Industrialization, you have a splitting of combined fortune. Now we were still dependent upon men because of economic disenfranchisement (laws of coverture) but men are less dependent upon women. The labor women provided was now available through mass production. That devalued it in the eyes of men and a lot of it became invisible. Out of sight (because the man is off at the factory all day) out of mind.

You no longer have stories about how the buffalo hide coat Ma and the girls made for Pa that was lined and stuffes with down saved Pa's life when he got trapped in a blizzard that time.

After WWII, there was a heavy propaganda campaign to convince women to give up their jobs for the men returning from war and go home and have babies for democracy and world order. Whatever. Make capitalism some consumers so we can make back that money we spent on the Marshall Plan.

Men walked away from all that propaganda thinking they were entitled to a woman, family and picket fence as a conquering hero. Because men are the Providers and Protectors.

And they still do.

So now we have devalued work. Any work women do, whether it was considered valuable before or not becomes less valuable.

Provider and Protector has become an unearned title men are losing their shit over that is completely divorced from reality. The mantle of it has become a cudgel used to browbeat women and question their femininity and all manner of ridiculousness.

It's a peacocking now. It's not real anymore.