The critics of SAHMs obviously would never have subscribed to the Wages for Housework Campaign.
As a woman who is hopeless at housework, like my mother before me, and am not very clever at keeping children entertained, I have every admiration for the work involved in running a house and looking children. It actually requires a lot of talent and specialist skills.
To my mind, there is nothing more patriarchal than denigrating the work that keeps the world turning round just because it is traditionally women's work.