Most PEOPLE, not just women, want financial security, TDK. I've said this before & I'll say it again: you need to get out of NY if this is all you experience. My son's female friends are all the age you're talking about. Most of them are recent college grads. Most of them are looking to get married as well. But they have college degrees, so clearly they expect to have a career at some point. But they may also like to have the option to stay home with their children while they are very little. And that would mean their husband would need to be making a large enough income to support that. But knowing these young ladies, not one of them chose their careers with an eye toward finding a rich husband who will allow them to stay home, be lazy & be taken care of.
I think it is safe to say that many women want to marry & have children. It's kinda what we're designed to do. We prepare for the future as if we are going to support ourselves (there's no guarantee we'll marry), but we hope that we will find a life partner who will help make it possible for us to stay home with our kids for a bit. It's not about being lazy - its about giving our children the benefit of our full attention rather than giving the best hours of our day to an employer & giving our family the exhausted leftovers.
