Political Humor

Well, the problem with option #2 is that they need the half of the population who are women to work also, otherwise the amount of the wealth produced by workers would halve and that would make the 1% (who get most of it) pretty sad.

And if, on one hand both members of a couple being force to work merelly to survive (an increasing trend since the 70s) is a bad things, on the other hand earning their own salaries has made many women independent.

The only way I see to have both the Economic production of female work in a way capturable by the 1% (the traditional housewife/houseman work is in fact actual work with Economic value, but its value accrues directly to the familly and can't be captured by the 1%) AND not giving women the independence that comes from having their own income is some kind of way more extreme anti-women legislation such as making sure that women's salaries can only be paid to their male "guardian", never to the woman.

(It's actually interesting to look at the world of The Handmaid from an Economic point of view: the removing of most women from working except as servants for a handful of "regime" families and the huge fraction of the remaining population that would need to work in Security to provided for all the massive and heavilly armed security apparatus we see in the TV series would completelly collapse the Economy of Gilead, transforming it into a country as poor as the poorest Latin American nations or worse).