These dating authors were arguing that commitment phobia and men not wanting to get married didn't exist the 1950's, but it all came after the feminist movement.
In Russia there is a strong women sexist lobby. Those women do not call themselves "feminists" but actually they employ some of the feminist arsenal. For example they want equal (by number) representation of women in
politics and work (i.e. sex quotas) while do not want the removal of laws discriminatory against men such as mandatory army service, havier criminal punishment and later pension.

Many of the policies invented by such women over time made men's life very difficult. On average Russian men live about 15 years less than women, this is the greatest difference in the world. Combined with the fact that men go to pension five years later, an average woman receives pension for 13 years while an average man for only -2 years, that is most men do not reach the pension age.

Many of the measures "to protect women" actually destroyed the marriage. This is because a man receives so many obligations with marriage that any reasonable man will not agree to marry. But in 1996 a new "innovation" was made into the law: now a love affair and a marriage actually became equated. In case of a child born, the woman can completely deprive the father of any contacts with the kid while receives alimony from the father as high as up to 50% of any his income (including selling realty he had before) for 18 years (this is to be increased to 23 soon). By contrast the state gives "mother's capital" to any mother who bore a child, but the father has no right to affect its use. This very much negatively affects the demographics: given such laws many men are afraid of bearing kids and more and more men choose not to risk and to go to Thailand for sex. Some even opt to pay to a surrogate mother so to have the rights to rise their children without a mother as did a popular pop singer Filipp Kirkorov.