A friend of mine recently was divorced. She had the higher income, so she pays support. And, she doesn't like it, but she does do it.

Those odds will increase when men and women share the burden of child raising and housework more equally, when having a kid doesn't derail a career, when women aren't steered into particular job paths by well-meaning career counselors and peers. I think if all those happen and men and women have the same odds for a well-paying career, maybe the divorced women will see child support as a price worth paying.

On the flip side, I just read a study that the employment status of men was a prime factor in divorce, independent of financial stress, showing that men have gender roles pushed on them as well.