Husband wants traditional housewife?

Any other wives on here are submissive to their spouse? If so, how does it work for you? I’m quickly starting to learn that my husband is old school. We wants me to quit my part-time job and stay home. I wouldn’t mind it too much because we have a 21 month old, so she will keep me busy. Even though I’m graduating with my degree next month I’ve been struggling with what I want to do. For the past month he’s been saying things like, “It’s a man’s job to provide” “you should come home and focus on our daughter” “what if I prefer you stay home?” I work as a part-time nanny and take my daughter to work with me, but I honestly don’t enjoy it. I’ve been considering what he wants, but I do enjoy having my own money. Luckily, my husband is a very loving, and supporting man. He will support anything I want to do, and I know that if I need money I won’t have a problem getting it from him. I can tell he wants the traditional housewife. He enjoys being the leader of he household. He works so hard to provide for us. We are blessed to have him. So my question is, does being a housewife work for you ladies? Was it hard giving up your job? Was it a good decision for your family? I guess I don’t like the idea of being on one income, but he seems pretty confident that he can handle it. He makes between $37,440-$40,000 a year. Where we live that’s pretty okay. We know how to manage money. I’m thinking about giving it a try and see how it goes? Would you?

Update:

To answer some of your questions, yes we did talk about this stuff before marriage, but he wasn’t able to do it until now. He couldn’t before. I just didn’t think it would come this soon. And he’s not “telling” me to quit. He’s fine with whatever I decide. I just know what he prefers and was considering it because I know it will make him happy, and I’m not happy at my current job. Maybe this is something I will try. Thank you ladies!

Update #2

Wow! I didn’t expect this post to blow up like this! Thanks again to the ladies who are being supportive. And yes, I understand that what my husband makes isn’t a lot, but we don’t have a lot of debt. Cars are paid off, low rent, and my husband get quarterly bonuses so that income I gave you was just an estimate. We don’t plan on having many kids. I’m pretty sure our daughter will be the only one for a very long time. Also my husband’s income is only going to grow because of the kind of job he has. We also have a savings. We wouldn’t be discussing this if would hurt us. We’ve been through hard times and learned from it. I really appreciate the support and advice.