How can you have a lasting marriage?

A friend and I were discussing how marriage has changed since we were  married in the 1960's and early 1970's. There has been some good changes in marriage. On the whole, women are better educated, trained, and paid. Consequently, they have been empowered to demand to be treated with greater respect and to have more assistance from the rest of the family with house responsibilities. Another consequences of women now being able to provide adequately for themselves and their children is that many are divorcing their husbands. 

I saw this same situation several years ago when we sponsored a Cambodian refugee family who fled to the United States. Women had no rights in their country. Men owned them and could, with family assistance, drag a fleeing wife home and beat her into submission. When these wives found that they could earn a good living themselves and that the police here would protect them from their husband, many divorced their husbands.