How have the ways of forming a relationship change over time?

In the 50/ 60.s before the equality of women kind. Women were the let,s say the docile partners, in a relationship, they had a lower esteem on the social ladder. A woman,s lot then was to get married have children stay at home and bring up the children . If she did work she was paid less than a male doing the same work. After generations of following in their mother,s footstep,s along came the women,s lib movement. Since then male and female,s are equal in all things. Also since then attitudes towards sex has changed, we have gay rights and are now much more liberal in relationships. You only have to follow the media to see how times have changed, some say for the worse.