The typical housekeeper around here, who does the cooking, cleans the house, cares for the children, and takes out the garbage without expecting her employer to share in any of these responsibilities, costs $300 per week. That works out to $15,600 per year. The median US family income in households where only the husband works is $36,786, which suggests that a working husband's average contribution to "all of the work" is 2.4 TIMES greater than the housekeepers' contribution.

The median family income in households where both the wife and husband work is $15,164 higher than when only the husband works, or $51,950. So a family who decides to hire a housekeeper for $15,600 per year so that the wife can go to work to increase their family income actually experiences an annual $436 net loss of income. Either way, the working husband provides 71% of "the work" in such a household.

The median income in households where there are no children and where the working husband is between the ages of 40 to 64 is $41,587. But because there are no children, the cost of a housekeeper is only $200 per week, or $10,400 per year, in which case the husband provides 80% of "the work" in that household.

This is solid evidence that the average wife's contribution to the "work" in a household has an economic value between $10,400 and $15,600, which makes her portion of "the work" equal to 20-29% of the total "work" in the household, which is hardly "all of the work" as you claimed.

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