I was born in 71 to parents born in 47. Eleanor, is spot on.

People are always shocked when I say I learned about Patriarchy from my mother, not my father.

Interestingly, my father learned to cook and keep house from his mom. It was expected.

My mom never let him help out at home (and it shouldn't have been help, referring to it as help lessens the input) or groused when he did. As the eldest daughter, I was parentified, even for my older brother.

My mom was always angry at my dad for "always taking my side and being too lenient" with me when I resisted all those expectations of gender essentislist claptrap, gender tropes, performative femininity, etc., even though we didn't have those words at the time.

My dad was always upset with my mom for mollycoddling my brother.
She did everything for him.

Conservative religions spearheaded the backwards movement from progression to liberation. Thats why it's worse in some areas of the country than others. You can track it by church locations, denominations, and size.

Let's face it, Abrahamic faith traditions are absolutely the nexus for regressive pushes of all types. They are factories of dominance hierarchy thought.

And America was colonized by the most extreme, zealous, and dogmatic interpretations of Christianity in Western culture. The ones nobody else could deal with.

They're the primary reason we struggle and fail to meet the enlightenment hopes of the founders.