Katharina Buczek
“Women no longer need husbands to own land, own a home, have bank accounts, to even have children. People also aren’t willing to put up with domestic abuse situations, either. Back in the day, women felt like they needed to stay… not so much anymore.”
The “Why” Behind Marriage Has Shifted
“This is widely studied. The main accepted-ish reason is that marriage has shifted from an arrangement of need– or survival– to an arrangement of happiness. So, people who are unhappy tend to leave more often.”
“Think about it like this. Women didn’t work nearly as much as men pre-WWI. And the participation of women in the workforce has only increased.”
“This is to say women can provide for themselves more often, and society recognizes marriage differently than it used to.”
“A course I took in undergrad on technology in society had the professor introduce the course with the statement, ‘Refrigerators cause divorce.'”
“He then went on to elaborate how the evolution of technology facilitating human needs that previously relied on other people to be met allowed relationships to transition from arrangements of survival/necessity to arrangements of convenience.”
“But that opening line has stayed with me for being so succinct.”
