And more haredi men worked and the women stayed home, so you'd be decrying the oppression and suppression of haredi women. And these infantile complaints about paying income tax. Nearly half the salaried workers in Israel don't earn enough to pay income tax. Try raising salaries nation-wide, and then more people would be paying tax. This continuous idiotic condemning the haredim for everything no matter what they do is getting tiresome. It's time to show a little maturity. Let's see this comment get published!

Israel Abrahams refers to this in his 1896 book Jewish Life In The Middle Ages as occurring frequently a century earlier and (gives the impression) it occurred regularly 'centuries' before that. "During his absence the wife became a business-woman,2 and she often supported her husband at ordinary times, despite the contempt which a Jew was held for allowing his wife to play the man for him.3 2 Rahen. 115, and Meir of Rothenberg Responsa (Lemberg), 57; Chayim Or Zarua, 250 3 This reliance on the wife became more marked in later centuries. Authors frequently allude to it in the prefaces of their books. Cf. e.g. Aaron ben Meir מנחת אהרן (Neuhof, 1792)." Jewish Life In The Middle Ages, 1896, p.156 Numerous copies of his book can be downloaded for free from the Internet Archive at: https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Jewish%20Life%20In%20The%20Middle%20Ages%29%20AND%20creator%3A%28Israel%20Abrahams%29