I think the system is better nowadays, when most young married couples seem to share housework and financial responsibilities equally. The crunch comes when the children arrive, as mother frequently works part-time and finds herself doing all the housework, even when she has returned to working full time.
Many women now share in heavy gardening, decorating and car maintenance, not to mention putting out the bins, which never used to happen, at least in my mother's day.
I do know a woman exactly like the one described in the post. Her husband was the product of a divorce, and was determined to be a good hands-on husband and father, of which she took full advantage. She resented his good job to the extent that he gave it up to please her, moved to a different area, and ended up in menial work following a nervous breakdown. Still she expected him to do everything. Writing this she has just reminded me of somebody!