A breadwinner x homemaker relationship is the most traditional type there is.
Not really. Traditionally, both man and woman were economically productive. First we've got the simplistic men = big game hunter, women = gatherer/young child raiser distinction. Then, for the shorter but more numerous period of agricultural peasants, both would be doing various farm duties. The men might be more likely to be wrestling big draft animals for plowing or chopping wood, vs. women spinning and weaving and making butter, but both were crucial. Hell, I've seen it said that men would re-marry quickly, or seek female slaves, for the domestic labor as much -- or more! -- as for sex.
You could call that 'homemaker', but it's not the post 1950s homemaker of vacuuming and grocery shopping and running the laundry machine, aided by tons of appliances (and public schools to take the kids off her hands). It's making and preserving food so y'all can live from harvest to harvest, and making clothes from scratch, and candles, and soap, and doing laundry by hand, and collecting eggs and milk and running the garden...
Even the Bible, Proverbs 31:10-31, goes on about the economic productivity of the "virtuous wife":
'She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.'
The breadwinner/homemaker or idle wife distinction was traditionally limited to families rich enough that they could afford to keep the women idle or locked up. Then to the 1950s USA, which was unusually rich at a popular level (at least for white families) and also particularly interested in pushing women back out of the workforce to give the jobs to GIs. And suburbia + 1 car family didn't leave the wife with a lot of options.
Mind you, "I have the money and power, you look pretty and are sexually available" is also kind of traditional. But not the most.
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