Gender norms are fluid. A century ago women were assaulted and beaten for wanting to vote in this country. About 50 years ago my sister was wait-listed at MIT, today they would have courted her and offered her incentives to attend. 30 years ago my friend couldn’t find a doctor to tie her tubes because she was single and didn’t want children, even though she was a successful, educated 35 year old professional woman. The examples go on and on, I won’t begin to list them all here.