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yes,but they could always go back to the household work,if her man or any of their relatives were working.
men,had nowhere to go back to.If they had no family of their own to support,maybe they could get help from parents,but usually they had two options in the street,either go poor and become hobbo,or the criminal life “reaching” for what they could not afford.In fact,gangsterism and drifters grew in every major city and across the country.
Some women went criminal too,but on prostitution mostly.
In some worker districts,the morality and moral went down with the pressure on livelihood conditions made more slum precarious.Neighborhoods of decent workers before,turned desperate.
That the economic hardships were intense forced many women -who before had never considered work out of the home as “a honest living”- to go around asking and when lucky,taking jobs even menial degrading jobs for a housewife.For many families and men(even the women themselves),this was a whole shock to their previous social values.

So in general,if any woman was lucky enough to be working it was already placed in disrespect,as the suffragists had been earlier.
The sentence on marriage “making a honest woman of her” still speaks volumes about those outside the household work.
Still,”housemaking and parenting” is the major single line of work that had never been out of business in any country in the World,though it is never seriously accounted,payed with else than food and board,and seldom respected as WORK.