Isn't it usually associated with the business sphere rather than the personal sphere?
I don't think equal labor force participation has been a thing for that meant decades.
No, not even a little bit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fisherman_and_His_Wife
> Synopsis
> A poor fisherman lives with his wife in a hovel by the sea. One day the fisherman catches a fish who claims to be able to grant wishes and begs to be set free. The fisherman kindly releases it.
> When his wife hears the story, she says he ought to have had the fish grant him a wish. She insists that he go back and ask the [fish] to grant her wish for a nicer house.
> The fisherman reluctantly returns to the shore but is uneasy when he finds that the sea seems to become turbid, as it was so clear before. He makes up a rhyme to summon the [fish], and it grants the wife's wish.
> The fisherman is pleased with his new wealth, but the wife is not and demands more, and demands that her husband go back and wish for a palace. Reluctantly, he does and gets his wish.
> But again and again, his wife sends him back to ask for more and more; she then asks for him to be made King, then to be made Emperor, then to be made Pope. Each time, the fisherman knows this is wrong but there is no reasoning with his wife.