Whatever the OP is, 'tradwife' sounds to me like yet another invented tradition, NOT real history.
In the UK, at least, it's been the 'tradition' for 250 years and more that working class men handed over their paypackets to their wives, to pay for food and other household essentials such as children's clothes. Yes, they might have kept some 'beer money' for themselves, and yes, some men treated their wives unkindly, but on the whole men relied on women to manage the 'family wage'. (There are even mysognistic jokes from the past about this - about men being fearful of taking a miserable wage packet 'home to her' - to a wife who would berate them for being lazy and useless. And the issue of the 'family wage' was one of the reasons why women workers were paid less than men.)
Further back in time, to take just a few examples, poor married women (and children) worked in the fields to earn money for the family- weeding crops, picking fruit etc. Or else they spun thread or knitted stockings. Or worked as carers, cleaners etc. Farmers' wives kept hens and sold eggs and made butter and cheese for sale. Very rich women were married with legal settlements that entitled them to an annual sum of money to spend on themselves as they chose. (This was not equal treatement of course, because their husbands took over any capital assets they had on marriage.) There were alewives and baxters (female bakers). There were married women factory-workers and piece-workers. Famously, in 19th cent Dundee, women went out to work while their 'kettle-boiler' husbands stayed at home, because there was a greater demand for female than for male employees. There were also legal fictions that allowed married women with skills to trade independently, and earn money on their own account.
All this is not to say that women were treated fairly or equally with men - they certainly were not - but a great many wives in the past exercised independence and judgement and managed family spending on a day-to-day basis. And they were not confined to the home.
It's fascinating how people with a present-day ideology so often ignore what actually happened for long periods of the past and invent a 'forever' tradition' to suit their own present-day needs. As a previous poster has said, the tradwife movement sounds like a throwback to specific and fairly short-lived era: 1950s affluent America, when jobs had to be found for returning servicemen and women were encouraged to give up their wartime work and stay at home, and to consume to the domestic products (cookers, fridges, furnishings, clothes etc) made by mass-production factories no longer making planes or armaments, in order to boost the national economy.