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I strongly dislike the idea that a households with one breadwinner is/was the usual/ideal organization of a family, but instead of writing a long rant, I prefer to give you a link to a 5 article series by Bret Devereaux about the production of cloth in the Roman Empire and similar times/places. https://acoup.blog/2021/03/05/collections-clothing-how-did-t... (HN discussions, with ~100 upvotes each https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Clothing%2C%20How%20Did%20They... )



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