Sounds materialistic to me. There's more to life than just social standing.
"Sounds materialistic to me. There's more to life than just social standing."
It isn't just social standing. This occurs through all social strata. It is about basic survival and how men were the head of the family and were needed to protect and provide for the family. This is essentially no longer true in the US and it is hard for westerners below a certain age to understand how women could ever accept anything but equal standing in a marriage.