Are wives still called to be a "help meet" for their husbands?

From what I see, many wives do not support their husbands' ministry, but either have their own non-overlapping ministry, or simply are not interested in participating for other reasons, such as preferring more worldly pursuits.

For most of human history the primary social construct was the family. The idea of a help meet for the husband was more applicable in this situation.

As the world has become more collectivized, the importance of and even many of the functions of family have been taken over by the state and the employer. What is left is often even unrecognizable as family. For example, Feminism is more of a Marxist construct and relevant to the new world in that it deals with the woman and her new "spouse" the state/employer.

Many people look at a phrase such as "help meet" and think it archaic and irrelevant. What has changed is that our society is transitioning away from even the concept of family.

When Hudson Taylor arrived in China in the 1800s, he observed in how the Chinese treated their women and that English women had no idea how much they owed their better status to Christianity.

We should be able to discern Satanic schemes including the destruction of families.

2 Corinthians 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

Some focus on women who have not been faithful to the instruction to be a "help meet". However, given the effectiveness of Satanic "devices", there is plenty of blame to go around. How many husbands know enough to be worthy of a "help meet"?

Many "families" are two parents and two children each with their own friends, interests, and activities. The living arrangement is more like roommates than family.

Are wives still called to be a “help meet” for their husbands?

Yes, and their husbands are still called to lead their families. It is just very hard for people who have been raised in the grip in which Satan holds the world. Even many churches fail to have answers that could help Christian families live according to the Bible.

Husbands and wives caught in the worldly forces Satan has set loose to destroy families have a difficult time. The concept of wives deferring to their husbands and husbands loving and cherishing their wives seems almost worthy of contempt in today's society.

In a way, it may begin to be easier for Christians to live Biblically as the world grows in hostility to Christ. There may be less confusion as the world shows its true nature.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

It is one thing to answer these questions in the tongue and lingo of the Bible; it is a whole new universe trying to bring this home to our everyday life. I will try to keep this short and simple.

Does the Bible teach elsewhere that this helper role should be a fundamental aspect of being a Christian wife today?

Yes…

• somewhere in Ephesians 5 (as stated above)
• God saw Adam was "lonely" in Genesis—the creation
• …and other metaphors from the lives of Sarah, Ruth, Naomi, Mary—mother of Jesus, …and so on—dare I add Rahab.

However, bear it in mind that these teaching were in times when the female gender was naturally subjugated to the authority of the male in the dim light of ignorance. So allow me break down your question.

Does the Bible teach elsewhere that this helper role should be a fundamental aspect of being a Christian wife…?

Yes.

…today?

No.

There was no possible means to infer into the standards of a future culture for people and prophets to use as a reference point.

However, the answer still remains yes women should be helpers. All other laws and conventions of love (as states in the New Testament as the greatest law of all) binds them to the help role—especially as it is generally known that they have a greater emotional capacity. But we shouldn't be blind to the intricacies of this answer—for men are should be helpers too. And women should never never be subjugated. For nowhere was it written "I have created thee a lesser of thyself that thou mayest dominate cleansing thy heart of loneliness" …nope!

In the end, we are all souls.

The word for "help meet" means more than just a helper. She was to be his counterpart. This is not limited to just man's ministry, but to everything in his life. She was not to be seen as lesser, or just a helper, but as his divinely appointed co-equal complement. This quote I believe explains it better.

God Himself gave Adam a companion. He provided “an help meet for him”—a helper corresponding to him—one who was fitted to be his companion, and who could be one with him in love and sympathy. Eve was created from a rib taken from the side of Adam, signifying that she was not to control him as the head, nor to be trampled under his feet as an inferior, but to stand by his side as an equal, to be loved and protected by him. A part of man, bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh, she was his second self; showing the close union and the affectionate attachment that should exist in this relation. “For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it.” Ephesians 5:29...

"The Faith I Live By" P.251

If you see it from this perspective, she is not limited to only help in man's ministry. They are to have one purpose and work together in every aspect of life. After sin came in, she was to be subject to her husband, but notice that this was as a result of sin. God's original plan was to have her be equal with her husband.