The world is really changing, different geographical locations are changing at different paces, though.
But the way society is structured humans never come together and decide on how things would be done from now on, rather the way changes in behavior and social norms occur is that people just react to other changes like economical changes.
And a particular reaction is usually widespread and the most widespread reaction becomes the norm.
For example, men used to more happily date and freely provide for women years ago when the economy was way less harsh. Now that the economy has become tougher it's no longer that easy to provide. This is an economic change and the most widespread reaction would be men renegotiating with women.
Men would ask for 50/50, or at least that the woman contributes, or men would abstain from dating entirely.
This is just a reaction to the economy, and the more men react in these ways the more the gender role of providing would die off and men and women would no longer get together on those terms.
This is already happening as I'm sure we all know. From the close of the 20th century.
A tougher economy is not the only cause, the existence of so much new commodities are also a cause.
Say about a century ago you weren't tempted to buy phones, data, gadgets, video games, televisions and all you have to spend in other to watch, etc.
A lot of new goods have popped out, so we have more to buy and attend to now than we did a century ago, which means we'll spend more. Coupled with the our dwindling currency values.
It used to be easier to provide when things weren't expensive and there wasn't this much to buy.
It also used to be easier when a man's superior physical strength meant easier provision, but now there's hardly any value that comes with having superior physical strength as men.
We don't farm, we don't hunt, we don't fight wars to take what belong to others, we can't really build modern day structures with our energy alone.
All the above mentioned things we no longer really do have moved on to be done in a much larger scale and with technological tools. The superior strength of males is almost useless.
If you farm, hunt, fight, build with your hands/physical strength the profits would be worth nothing compared to if it was done with machines.
So, in conclusion, the world has simply changed and we're not structured in a way that we'll come together and decide this is what we'll do now that the world has changed, instead we all just react to the change in some ways and after a while the reaction would be the norm.
Providing centuries ago was also a reaction to the world as it was then. Men were better at farming, hunting, building, protection of property and forceful acquisition, so it was only right that men were the providers.
Now that's no longer the case, so men would adjust.
The End
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