There have absolutely always been women who do not fit the roles society (men mainly) decided for them, did not want children, hated knitting, wanted to have a career and men who also did not fit the roles decided for them, hated beer, football, working full time.
And of course women have ALWAYS worked for pay, only a tiny proportion of incredibly privileged women were ever stay at home mothers who never worked for money.
Unfortunately we went from "women have a right to do as much as they can manage to do and it doesn't matter that they are the opposite sex" to "let's pretend women can fight with the strength of a man, carry a burning body from a building and are physically exactly the same as men in all ways".
So, no, there is no point at all in assigning roles to women and men, but what we do need to do is simply accept that while men and women ARE NOT THE SAME individuals all have a rise to their own strengths, whatever they may be without pushing the nonsensical and clearly untrue narrative that the two sexes are exactly the same and can perform exactly the same tasks.
Blind resumes and auditions for orchestras etc proved that women were being denied roles they deserved. So, as much as possible, the best outcome would be to give both sexes the same opportunities and let them compete fairly on merit in the fields where they can do so - without pretending that some things are simply possible if you are born male, or born female, and that cannot be changed.