Why have you returned, Mrs. Cleaver?

I'm completely perplexed as to why we've reverted back to the 1950's when it's clearly 2013. Girls in their late teens and early 20's are getting married, having babies and settling down to play house. I'm just blown away as to why anyone would want to settle down so young when you have your whole life ahead of you. Is it to obtain the glamour of being the young bride? To be the cute mom toting your tots around town for play dates with other young mom's? Why are smart and capable women rushing to put on the facade of doting wife and caring mother, just to let their dreams and aspirations falter? It's sickening that women these days would rather stand on the sidelines, or for most the kitchen, cheering on their husbands to get that raise or land their dream job. We have evolved through the years and fought for women's rights, for what? To fall back into the same lives that our grandmother's lived? For some this may seem like the safe alternative versus finishing school, landing a job and making a career and life for yourself independently. However, I feel like playing house would get old very quickly. For me, I wouldn't want to come home from my job/career (if even having one) and cook dinner, pack lunches, do laundry and clean like a stepford wife just for the sake of keeping my husband happy. Don't get me wrong, I'm not so subversive to tradition that I don't eventually want to be married or even make a home, I'm just simply saying what's the rush? It's so common for women to have children in their 30's and even 40's now, so why is it in many small towns and elsewhere, women feel like they need to plant their roots in their early 20's in homes that will eventually lose their new house excitement, marriages that will inevitably end in divorce and with children who will suffer the consequences. To each their own, I just find it maddening that women are selling themselves short and instead of seeing the world and accomplishing their goals, are so quick to settle for being a house wife with a small town life. Or maybe I've just been watching Mona Lisa Smile too much.