I'm trying to think about when the American media dynamic shifted to allowing family scenarios in which the clearly smarter, more talented spouse was the one who wound up being the homemaker. Almost always the wife, of course.
Obviously by the time of The Simpsons the doors had been blown wide open, but what was the critical media franchise that was the lever? Maybe just the Simpsons itself? The Honeymooners came ~35yrs earlier of course, but I'm not aware that it changed the overall media dynamic much.