WAIT, I THOUGHT WE HAD EVOLVED PAST TRADITIONAL SEX ROLES: For millennial women, ‘the one’ must have a steady job. “For most of Western history, marriage was a political and economic transaction (for both the spouses, and the communities they belonged to). In the late 18th century, it began transforming into an institution based on love and soul-mating. Now, it’s about politics and economics once again.” Fundamentally transformed back.