These roles have been changing at a relatively rapid pace, but the values that surround these roles have not been changing at the same rate. Many consequences arise from resistance to these role changes. This imbalance of role and value change have large implications for the future of the stability of the family. The difficulty our society has with accepting these changing roles can cause strain between spouses which can ultimately lead to divorce. The exploration of the effects of married women's employment, gender socialization, and divorce rates are intertwined and can not be discussed without referring to the other.
Divorce is something that has become a dramatically more common event in our society.
When we are analyzing our society's propention towards higher divorce rates, by looking at gender soclialization as well as married women's employment as factors in the increasing divorce rates, we can not start the process of analysis without dicussing the structure our society has constructed to support the institution of divorce. Today the possibility of divorce may be considered from the onset of the martial engagement. The structure our society has created to support the institution of divorce is something that both gender socialization and married women's employment exists within. Further, when linking these two factors to climbing divorce rates this back drop of an environment where divorce is an accepted practice may in fact help to not only give these factors momentum but to participate in the actual creation of them as well. With this all said we can now go on to explore employment of married women and gender socialization as two major correlations with higher divorce rates.