“What exactly is that if not as a wife and mother?” (to be a good role model as a woman)
Apparently not, as so many of the women who SHOULD be role models at home for their children, are forced out into the work force by a society that teaches them that the ideal is for THEM to support their families while their husbands sit in Kollel. You cannot have it both ways. And I have seen the difference in the children raised by babysitters versus those whose mothers put their complete hishtadlus into the raising of their babies.