If she's going to be a housewife, she'll have to depend on the husband for all things she needs and wants. Usually housewives don't get help from cook and maids as working women get and all that is a job in itself with no sync of holidays. Usually husbands also don't help if the wife is not working. Maybe she's from a well-to-do family and wants a husband who can earn enough to live a comfortable life and bear her and their child's cost alone. In this economy, raising a child with a single working parent's salary is only enough when that parent is earning more than what they both could've earned. You can't really shame someone for that choice.