It's so sad to me when "modern" women decide they're going to make judgement calls on women from the 30s, 40s, 50s, etc.
Like, on a picture where the husband is sitting in an armchair reading and she's vacuuming. I heard today a comment that he's sexist. WELL, looking at the illustration (which I don't have a copy of unfortunately), it's clearly from the 1940s. Which means he's worked all day and she's a stay-at-home wife and mother. So he's tired and he's resting after being the breadwinner all day and she probably even brought him his newspaper.
The person in the conversation I was privy to paid absolutely no attention to historic context.