It's hard to go against cultural ingraining. You have to break free of that inertia it gives to how ones life will play out on the social landscape. And that's not easy. It's not overly hard either. Mostly, it just takes self awareness, a certain degree of stubbornness, confidence, and faith/hope to see it through and that it'll be better once you do.

The question of raising children alternately has not been answered.

Religion has a lot of sway in peoples lives. Too much.

When it comes down to it, sex for the sake of having sex isn't appealing for most women. They yearn for a deep emotional connection. For hererosexual women, this puts them at a distinct disadvantage.

Even though we're close to financial parity, we're not used to living with it yet.

Long story short, life is never without challenges. It's life. So, even though many of us are finding it preferable outside traditional marriage and relationships, forging a different path is not without challenges and the road is less travelled. We're surveying and mapping out the territory as we go.

Makes sense that many women will refuse it, others will wait to see how it works out, others will try and turn back out of fear, others will find themselves there kicking and screaming (they didn't want it and didn't choose it, it got chose for them, but then they're very glad after that initial shock), others will tread very carefully, and others will happily and joyfully saddle up and not look back.