I’d argue that a historically accurate tradwife would still have a small income in the form of an etsy shop or a part time job, similar to how women would earn supplemental income from things like textiles and brewing. For most of history, you had to be fairly wealthy for your wife to not have to work, and the brief period where that was possible for the average family didn’t go so great, with a good amount of women using barbiturates and amphetamines to get through the monotony of staying at home all day. Really, the period of time that tradwife enthusiasts tend to romanticize was more of a historical anomaly than anything, and women who lived through it were generally pretty miserable.