Question

in the era before the industrial revolution, the expectation was that women would
work and equally take care of the home and children with their husbands in order to make enough to survive.
marry and stay at home to take care of the house and children while their husbands worked.
remain single or marry if they wished, have children or be child - free and own property.
work alongside their husbands while someone else took care of the home and the children.

Explanation:

In pre-Industrial Revolution agrarian and early European/US societies, the dominant gender norm was a patriarchal, separate-spheres model: men were the primary wage/resource earners, while women were expected to fulfill domestic duties of home and child care within the household.

Answer:

marry and stay at home to take care of the house and children while their husbands worked.