There is one comment which approaches realizing this but doesn't make the distance:

i think you got the wrong idea about pulling their own weight. They certainly did that back in ww2 when the men went off to war. now woman can fill other roles as well, the problem is the wage disparity from then till now. Woman have been forced to work in order to maintain a household. Two wages to cover one of that time. If we could fix our housing and cost of living and bring the numbers back down households could return to single income but atm more often than not double income is required to progress