The reconditioning has started. I’m editing myself. Being an akeres habayis is not a goal that the girls are being given permission to have. The rhetoric to have them date later is to ease the demographics problem and give them time to pursue their degrees (please note, I have no issue with this) to make them more appealing as kollel wives (to boys who don’t have a clue as to an exit plan). The mind can’t hold two opposing thoughts.
Many boys are quite happy with girls who have a parnasa. The reconditioning we need to have for the boys is in the area of how they can beoome more substantial and appealing to the highly qualified girls. Not because they’re modehrnish working women but because we have created this great gap. I think that sincere, temimusdik boys who don’t have a clue about dress sizes (and mothers who would be looking for the best girl for their son) would be quite appealing to these girls. But they’re going the way of the dinosaur.