With improving egg collection and storage techniques, perhaps women will choose to bank their eggs early in their life and stop the menstrual cycle. For many years we have had test-tube fertilization. It is only a matter of time until we are able to support laboratory gestation. All these changes fit the Myrmex Paradigm like a glove. What about the males.
Male ants have only one purpose, to mate with the fertile females.
We call the fertile females queens, but we do not call the fertile males kings. Instead we call them drones. The name says it all. Other than their genetic contribution, drones are useless to the colony. Listen to the news reports.