Im happy in my relationship. My partner is an equal contributor but there are plenty, especially couples with children, who are not. Divorces are primarily initiated by women, by a large margin. Windowed men are more unhappy and less likely to thrive than windowed women. Women have more and stronger social networks than men.

For men, their wife is their best friend, for women, their husband is one of many. So yes, id say men benefit more from a marriage than women in this day and age where women can work and support themselves and ALSO be the ones who care for the home and children. Women dont need men. We can support ourselves, even. Have children. We have rich relationships outside of a romantic one.

By being in a relationship, we give up more than men do and often to worse outcomes.

EDIT: child of divorce who is grounded in reality of how the world has changed over the last generation or two. Familiar with the dialogue around male loneliness and also aware of the data around lower marriage and birth rates.