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The exact opposite. The opportunity cost of staying home increases the less housework there is to be done, which just means more pressure to get out there and get a job so long as people want more wealth. And people wanting more and more wealth is a fundamental part of humanity that isn't being changed anytime soon. Automating housework was always going to end up with women getting out of house work. Two earner wealth > One earner wealth is simple, obvious, and undeniable. One has to change the very nature of our species to prevent it.
And we can prove this simply by looking at real world economies. There's not really any country that is civilized and automated that doesn't get the women eventually going out of their daily chores housework and into the workforce. There is not many real world examples where the average woman in the country sits around all day drinking tea and watching TV, they're either too poor to have automation (in which case the women is doing all the intensive and time consuming housework) or they're automated and the women are getting jobs.
The only possible exceptions I can think of are like, the gulf state nations rich off oil and immigrant laborers (and even those aren't entirely fair since we're substituting the housewife work with domestic underclass women work, so women are still working so there's still tons of women working). So I guess if you can get a nation that makes a substantial part of their money off pure luck, with repressive religious dictatorships that enforce their beliefs against their own citizens economic incentives and a super poor underclass that flows in to do work for them, you can get it.
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