When marriages remain unequal in some level of male dominance, but couples refuse to acknowledge that traditional gender roles may be responsible for the inequity, this is referred to as constructing

This is referred to as constructing Myth of equality.

Explanation:

It has been in the Indian culture that the society has always been a male dominating one, where women has suffered a lot in order to get the same place in the society as like men. Talking about the failure of a marriage, then the reason of the unbalanced relationship between the couple is the dominance of male gender in the society as men has been empowering the women. The society has never seen gender equality and it has become a myth only now. Still now the value and importance of women is less and not equal to men.

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