As I said earlier, 10 years ago the job market was horrible (for everyone). It’s euphoric for everyone now but especially women. I think you would find a very different experience today.
Perhaps.
But to act as though skipping higher Ed and career building doesn’t effectively make a spouse of 50 reasonably eligible for lifetime alimony if she is an innocent party and he got the degrees and career progress is not reasonable. It should be a possibility in some cases.