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Interestingly, one consistent statistic over the past millennium indicates that the average age of marriage has lingered around 27-28 years. These periods have often been harbingers of civil strife: revolutions and wars seem more probable when young adults cannot establish families, mainly due to severe economic constraints. This is a key factor that drives some contemporary voices to speculate that much of the feminist rhetoric surrounding professional ambitions might be a cop-out for the inability to start families at the “traditional” age.
Women wield the term “boss babe” as a means of coping with financial constraints, often leading to societal structures where single-income households are increasingly rare.