With all our present knowledge and a myriad choices for birth control, it seems like women have even less control than they did 40 years ago. Most girls made it through high school without getting pregnant and often with no birth control.
It seems to me that the more we know and the more choices we have, the more of a mess we make of things.
When I was growing up, most girls dreamed of getting married and having families like their mothers did. It was a status symbol not to have to work, and the ones who did go to work were in the minority and I don't know if they really wanted those careers or to escape from a bad marriage. Some women were driven into the work force for economic reasons. I don't know what they dream about today, but whatever it is, it is based on a very distorted world view. I blame society for most of what has happened.
I don't remember women being unhappy to be wives and mothers when I was growing up. Their families were their whole lives. They didn't demand all the expensive things people think they have to have today. They did have nice things though. They just didn't change the carpeting and redecorate the house every five years. It's good for the economy to have women with money and an insatiable appetite for more and more.