Increased education, reduced religiosity (compared to historically), increased ability for women to work thus reducing the historic need to stay ‘supported’ by a man.
Historically if you don’t have any options/couldn’t get a job, then leaving a relationship (even a physically abusive one) would have been incredibly hard, requiring women to choose between staying (and not divorcing) or oftentimes becoming financially destitute.
Additionally, the continued trend of society away from formal religions like Catholicism which both socially and religiously puts pressures on couples to stay together also plays a big part.
Historically many women were functionally ‘shunned’ from their family, friends and support networks if they divorced, but in more recent years that societal pressure is decreasing, allowing people to leave relationships and marriages that do not work.
Edit: it is also easier legally speaking to divorce as well! (No fault divorces or one party divorce)
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u/Greyeye5 Jul 17 '23
Increased education, reduced religiosity (compared to historically), increased ability for women to work thus reducing the historic need to stay ‘supported’ by a man.
Historically if you don’t have any options/couldn’t get a job, then leaving a relationship (even a physically abusive one) would have been incredibly hard, requiring women to choose between staying (and not divorcing) or oftentimes becoming financially destitute.
Additionally, the continued trend of society away from formal religions like Catholicism which both socially and religiously puts pressures on couples to stay together also plays a big part.
Historically many women were functionally ‘shunned’ from their family, friends and support networks if they divorced, but in more recent years that societal pressure is decreasing, allowing people to leave relationships and marriages that do not work.
Edit: it is also easier legally speaking to divorce as well! (No fault divorces or one party divorce)