In the Vedic religion, wife is indispensable. Wife is one half and the husband the other half, and when conjoined through marriage, they make one whole unit.
The same text also lists some duties to be followed/performed by an ideal wife as follows:
A wife is weightier than the world with its virtues, wealth, and
enjoyment, since with the help 'of no other auxiliary than a wife can
he bear it's burden. Hence, one should marry, and by constant practice
and self control duly maintain her. (15)
Day and night, the wedded couple should be one in spirit in respect
of all matters of piety, gain, and desire (enjoyment). They should be
one in vows and practices. (18)
A woman has no separate existence from her lords in matters of piety,
gain and desire. The S'astras have enjoined this dependency of love.
(19)
A wife should quit her bed before her lord, cleanse (wash) her person,
fold up the beds, and make her house clean and tidy. (20)
Then having entered the chamber of Homa (sacrificial fire) she should
(first) wash and plaster its floor, and; then the yard of her house,
and after that, wash with warm water the vessels of oils, clarified
butter, etc., which are used in connection with Agnikaryayas, and keep
them in their proper places. (21)
Thus having performed her morning (house-hold) duties, arrd pondered
over the dishes of different {flavours (to be prepared, that day), and
allotment of
work to different workers, and the daily expenditure of the household, she should make obeisance to her elders and superiors. (24)
Then she should decorate her person with the ornaments given to her by
her father-in-law, husband, father, mother, maternal uncle, or
relations. (25)
Pure in her thought, speech and action, and obedient to the dictates
of her
=lord, she should follow him (in life) like his own shadow, seek his good like a trusted friend, and minister /to his desires like a
servant. 26 27)
Then having finished cooking, she should report of it to her husband
saying, " the rice is cooked." The husband having made offerings
therewith to the Vishvadevas, she should first feed the children, and
ithen serve out the morning meal to her lord. (28)
Then, with the permission of her lord, she would ;partake of the
residue of the boiled rice and cooked dishes (described above), and
spend the closing portion of '.the day in contemplation of the family
earnings and expenditure. (29)
Having again attended to the cleansings of the house, etc., at
evening, she should cook the night meals (of the household) and
provide her husband with a sumptuous repast. (30)
Then the cheerful lamps should be lighted, and she, having spread out
a comfortable bed, attend to massage the body of her lord. (31)
After her husband had slept, she should lie down by her side, not
entirely bereft of clothes, ...
She should not speak too loudly, nor harshly, or unpleasantly to her
lord, avoiding all quarrels, lamentations, and perfidies. (33)
She should not be prodigal in her purse, nor hostile to the spirit of
piety or gain. Carelessness, fickleness of mind, anger, envy,
deception, vanity, rivalry, mischievousness, cruelty, inordinate
pride, cunningness,. atheism, daringness, discontent, and
dissimulation are the fifteen vices which a chaste wife should always
try to renounce. (34,35)
A chaste wife, who thus worships her lord, acquires fame and blessings
in this life, and lives in the same region with "him, after death.
(36)
All verses from Vyasa Smriti's chapter 2.