God has always willed that the 'pecking order' should be the husband providing/protecting the household and the wife nurturing the future generation and helping the husband to remain strong. But I also see a rise in the fact that some women have had to pick up the slack due to being forced into the workplace when their first desire would be to stay home and raise the kids and look after them (plus the household).
In the UK shortly after WW2, due to the loss of lives by men sent to war, it was on the backs of women that the economy was jump-started until the service men could get back to old professions. War widows etc were forced to remain though due to the fact that they were the only members left to look after the household.
Society has changed since we were kids, though.
I don't agree that it is purely down to the feminist movement of the 70's as to why it appears as though women are rushing into the job market or taking over the payment of bills. Sometimes as someone else said, it could just be the fact that like a PA, some wives might be better at managing the finances since they would be aware of where the resources at home would need to be channeled. If the husband worked long hours I am sure that in some homes, he may 'delegate' the affairs of the home out of trust for his helpmate. A Proverbs 31 woman didn't stay at home making it look pretty, while her husband multi-tasked himself into an early grave. She was clearly an intelligent woman who knew how to use her skills to help her husband build a strong household.
Also if you have a man who chooses to not look after his own, who is happy to throw all his wages away gambling instead of feeding his kids, who chooses to not manage his funds correctly to where his own children go hungry, who fails to treat his wife as Christ loved the church to where she herself is neglected - should we then condemn the female who has to take care of household bills, who has to make sure the kids DO eat/have clothes, and who has to then work in order to take care of things?
I'm just saying as I dislike seeing generalisations and whilst there is a percentage of women who have a 'Jezebel' like nature and are career-driven at the expense of others, there are equally a range of women who for whatever reasons are forced to work in order to make ends meet especially when their husbands may get laid off work etc.