I didn’t finish the article because it’s a bit long winded (I’ve give the author an “A” for being even-handed) but I’ll tell you why men strove to provide. It was to impress women.
Now men know that it is now harder to impress them financially or professionally, in other words, achievement-wise. Men are less trustful of women now because they feel that they won’t measure up, and won’t be respected. Respect is very important to a man and the feminist revolution made that harder to attain. And at times it cast men as the enemy, almost as animals.
Am I saying women should go back into the kitchen? No, but women need to be less paranoid of men, less oppressive in language and deed. There are good, supportive women out there but face it, being a man is institutionally undesirable, particularly if you’re young.
Our corrupt government has forced businesses to hire women at greater rates and with the feminist indoctrination the women want that. Since women are mostly programmed to want a man to be their main provider it then becomes more difficult to find a man that makes a higher income.
Couple that with the government directed universities enrolling women in greater percentages than men and handing out worthless degrees to them those women actually think they are smarter and better than the man who goes into the plumbing business and ends up making a really good paycheck.
Politicians were devious enough to change society to sow the destruction of the nuclear family and in the end become the provider of money and safety for women and their bastard children. Women are now basically beholden to politicians for their needs, even if they have been given a good job, because they still need safety and security and they now have no husbands to fill that need.