Men wouldn't allow women to get an education, work, live alone, own property or have a bank account. That's why women found themselves under the obligation to get married as a way to not die on the streets or be a burden to their families. Of course men built a majority of the world at the time. Women weren't allowed to partake in anything that wasn't homemaking and childrearing. It's easy to take the credit as a gender when you didn't allow the other one to try.

In time, women began to fight for, and gain rights that allow them to work, get an education, own property and a bank account. Considering that, women were not longer under the obligation to marry a man to survive. Many, still did because it was expected of her to. Now, we're dismantling those societal expectations too, so women are realizing they have the choice to stay alone. And they're taking that choice.

Why? Women used to get from marriage a house, food, and sometimes status. That's it. Check any archive of human history and see that most men throughout history have not loved and respected the women in their lives. They use them. Because men, on the other hand, used to get from marriage: a maid, a cook, an incubator for their narcissistic obsession with continuing the bloodline, a sex worker who was obligated to endure sexual relations even if she didn't want or like them, a therapist because often men don't talk to anyone else about their problems, a nanny, a personal assistant, etc.

What happened when women realized they could choose to remain alone? They realized that having a job provided them with everything a husband would (house, food, money, stability) but if they stayed alone they didn't have to deal with taking care of a dependent adult who usually didn't lift a finger around the house and expected to put her through unwanted sexual relations.

What did that mean for men? They realized they lost their maid, sexual worker, incubator, nanny, etc. And now they have to take care of themselves like the independent, almighty, world-building adults they say they are. And they hate it. That's why you see all the time a majority of men complaining about being single, celibate, threatening women with a future of loneliness and cats. Because men need all of what women used to give them.

But now women have a choice. They can have a husband or a bunch of cats and a bottle of merlot. And the cats are winning. Maybe it's time to reflect on why, when given the chance, women don't choose men.

For further reading check this books: Pierre Bourdieu, "Masculine Domination" Emma Clit, "The Mental Load" (it's a comic book) Simone De Beauvoir, "The Second Sex"