The traditional gender roles that formed alongside our evolution are broken today: men still crave women's affection, but women no longer need men to provide them. Because of this we were able to abolish traditional marriage, which was the only thing that kept the society sane. Yes, women were oppressed, but not without reason: women are hypergamous by nature.
There's a non-negligible population of fully grown virgin men with very little chance of marriage or reproduction. Can you give them a reason to work and be productive? Can you give them a reason to live? Mark my words, we'll hear more and more about lonely men going on shooting sprees or committing suicide (if anyone cares enough to report them).