"These girls are just after money, true love died with Shakespeare." That is a 'song' that I have heard on repeat so many times. Gentlemen have refused to step up and act like one, whilst ladies are incessantly accused of digging into the men's pocket in disguise of being in love.
Traditionally speaking, if a woman wasn't able to cook, do house chores or take good care of the man, she was in the black book of not being a wife material. On the other flip, the men had one paramount duty, to provide.