Increased level of education and focus on careers--as women have the ability to have relationships but also provide for themselves, marriage is not a necessary option.
Birth control and access to college education has allowed women to focus on careers instead of family. They are able to still have successful lives but not have to worry about balancing a career and a family.
His quote is important so we learn our lessons from the past so we don't repeat them in the future. The post-WWII generation needs to learn about the tragedy of the Holocaust along with how Hitler and the Nazis were able to rise to power, and we need to know how to act when we see parallels to this in the modern world.
GOC should have provided him insight into how the operations and decision making works in the American Headquarters. Along with setting up formal meetings with the Managers he would be working alongside, and built up the relationship(s) through appropriate outlets, not going out for informal after work catchups, especially before those solid foundations and professional boundaries are setup. Collins should have been advised to discuss directly with those Managers to distribute information on new approaches to their teams.
If they grew up in an extremely poor family, they could possibly see no way out of it, and be content in living the way they are. Despite having the possibility to progress forward.
