From the time of the second wave of the women's movement, following the aberrant 1950s throughout most of the 1960s, there was and remains NO turning back for women, not just economically but women LIKE earning their own money, doing work they like or working at all to get out of the house. The pill and legal abortion were big factors in women having more choices on how to live their lives. The trajectory of fewer children and fewer marriages is at least a century old, if not older, thanks to industrialization and medical advances.
Women's increased rejection of patriarchy and its institutions like marriage and the "traditional" family is what has so many men butthurt. These men, basically MRAs, form the core of the MAGA movement, the core of the P25 crowd, the core of the GOP, the core of the "Christian reconstructionists." They can't use or abuse women anymore. They can't use them as "bangmaids," as younger women call the female sex role. They are angry they aren't getting laid as much as they think they are owed. Their entitlement to women's time, labor, and bodies has been undermined for good.
THIS is the primary driver of all this nonsense of trying to coerce women "back to the home." The economy doesn't have as much an influence these days as the fact more and more women LOVE being alone and not some slave to some manbaby with a house full of screaming brats. Women, younger and older, are not necessarily "delaying" marriage or children--they are in fact REJECTING them and more and more rejecting relationships with men altogether.
Of course, racism and xenophobia play a role as evidenced by the absolutely stupid "great replacement theory" which some French nutballs of all people came up with and was debunked. However, it is women who are the target because patriarchy is being dismantled.
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