I know Keynes said something of the sort, did the 18th and 19th century industrialists also say this stuff?
Women went from carrying washboards to the rivers edge to walking downstairs and dropping a load into the washing machine. Root cellars became ice boxes became refrigerators. Instead of beating the rugs you run a vacuum, etc.
Women could've hung out at home with this newfound time, but instead they mostly went into the workplace. This roughly doubled the labor force and over time essentially halved wages workers took home, making dual income households the norm and now essentially a requirement to own property.
First, it didn't happen then, specially if wages being halved meaning that there isn't even a theoretical possibility of working half the hours for the same pay.
And why does doubling labour force halve wages? Land is limited so the higher competition can mean more workers mean higher prices, sure. But for everything else, productivity of workers per hour increased. This isn't the middle ages where demand for labour is more or less limited by the availability of agricultural land. Why can't the new and old workers capture the same share of the pie they produce as before women joined the wage labour force?