Commenting on the findings of the TODAY Youth Survey 2021, SMU Dean of Students and Professor of Sociology (Practice) Paulin Straughan said that the survey findings reflect the “emerging new expectations of men and women and marriage”. Women in the past, she said, had fewer opportunities outside of homemaking and so, it became a natural trajectory for them to get married and become mothers when they came of age. However, as more women received better education and entered the workforce, societal norms changed and they found more doors open to them.