It's quite common for us to see employed men marrying unemployed women but it's rare to see employed women marrying unemployed men

Completely relegated? In the US, the majority of two-parent households are dual income. Of the minority of homes that are single income, a number of them are stay-at-home fathers- a number that has been growing for years.

There is some truth sprinkled into what you're saying here, but to be clear, women's "societal pressure" today is to be independent and have a career and prove they can do everything a man can do and more. By and large, the pressures have been increasingly of corporate feminism, not homemaking. This has been an uphill trajectory since the 60's (technically, since the turn of the 20th century) and even more so since the new millennium. This is self evident when you look at any of the female characters in society's media. It's self evident when you observe the push to get women into STEM and the demand for women CEOs and the market for female owned companies and products.

Time to reevaluate what you think "current societal norms" are. What you're saying doesn't hold up to the statistics of the States (and seemingly most Western countries) and seems to be based primarily on dated feminism regurgitation that doesn't actually account for the modern female experience in any meaningful way.

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