I suppose much depends on what one prides oneself on. In the olden days, tyhis was highly gendered - men were supposed to pride themselves on accomplishing things in the workforce, and women on raising a family and keeping a home; today, the latter role, it seems to me, tends to be denigrated for both men and women, and the former exaulted for both.
To my mind, at least, both roles remain necessary, and I don’t see any shame in raising a child and keeping a home; indeed, to the extent that these tasks don’t fill all one’s time, there’s an opportunity to fit in some creative stuff. Ideally, the break-down of the old gendered notions ought to have allowed for the opportunity for either partner to work, and the other not; though I realize that the economics is against this - for most, it generally requires two incomes just to make do. I’d love to have the opportunity to not work myself, but sadly events have conspired otherwise - in order to keep up an upper-middle-class lifestyle, I must work, as my wife’s career was never remunerative enough to support us both whereas mine was and is.
There is a good point made about keeping one’s hand in the workforce out of self-defense against contingencies; myself, I’ve always been a bit of a risk-taker (though in this respect, admitedly I’m not the one taking the risk!). I’d hate to live my entire life defensively.