You're kidding right? Aside from the fact that 30% of women make the same as their men and 20% make more - and that these numbers are increasing every day as more young women go to college and fewer young men do - holding the home and family together as well as having primary responsibility for children is not a worthless job that deserves zero respect. Money isn't the only metric of contribution to a relationship. Duh!
Also, patriarchy is only 6–9k years old, and even then men as “providers” is really only about as old as the Industrial Revolution — and in most foraging cultures gatherers bring in a much higher percentage of daily calories than hunters do — and we lived as nomadic foragers for 97% of human history.
Women were not necessarily impoverished by divorce in the medieval world. Because no one in the Middle Ages ever claimed that the man was the main breadwinner, a divorced wife was entitled to a percentage of the household estate in line with the labor she had contributed to it. Irish jurists ruled that divorcing women deserved a percentage of the farm’s lambs and calves since wives kept the animals, made the wool into cloth, and turned the milk into cheese and butter. In tenth-century Wales the king declared that a divorced man could have the pigs because he normally kept them in the woods near home, but the wife got the sheep because she took them to the highlands during the summer.
Coontz, Stephanie. Marriage, a History (p. 105). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
People who believe in relationship hierarchy and are so insecure that they think they need and deserve to lead are frankly pathetic. Try being a mature adult by acting as a real partner with your spouse. That's where true happiness lies.
We then examined their effect on life satisfaction in the industrialized democracies around the world (the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan). We combined these data with data from the World Values Survey and the Eurobarometer survey, as well as other common predictors of life satisfaction, and we ran a series of statistical models to determine what effect gender equality had on human happiness.
Our results were quite clear: across all four measures, gender equality was shown to significantly improve life satisfaction. Additionally, we find that the effect is quite large; gender equality led to much higher rates of life satisfaction among residents of more equal countries, while countries with less equality reported being less satisfied with their lives.
