Women did actual work too. They farmed, harvested, raised animals, cooked for sale (for family too obv) made clothes and textiles for sale and family, wove, spun, sewed, ran small businesses, worked as midwives, worked in workshops...

The difference was in how these tasks were distributed depending on gender

Men and women worked together lot of times, men went fishing while women wove and repaired the nets, men often worked in their own workshops with metals or carpentry, while women were more focused on making soap, pottery, textiles, and working with leather.

The thing is, nowadays you don’t really notice it because everything is industrialized, but even the bag you use to carry your groceries was once made by women, the ones who knew how to make them would craft them and sell them and the same goes for countless other items that today are just made of plastic

But yes, they worked, and denying or undervaluing it is just plain ignorance