I agree with where you wind up, but I'm not entirely sure your idealized notion of the traditional family ever truly existed. Men are not really "the protector and provider" when a woman is battered every 9 seconds in the US, and 1 in 3 women experience domestic violence in their lifetime.

The women I know who are in the workforce, myself included, aren't there because we enjoy competing with men. We're there because we have to earn a living for ourselves and our families. And I have to tell you, that's harder to do when, as a woman, I earn on average 79 cents for every dollar a man earns. That's a stat from a May 2017 Business Insider article, and that's 54 years after the US passed "the Equal Pay Act." So maybe there's still a little room for improvement. What do you think?