 It's only in the midst of this obscene affluence that almost all of us are experiencing that we can start tinkering with gender roles, right? Instead of men doing one thing and women doing another, now we say that men and women should all do the same things. And sex should not factor into how the work is delegated at all. But it's hard to argue that this arrangement has been a smashing success as marriages are falling apart at a rapid rate. The family unit itself is disintegrating.