If you silence and disempower the women, who have got rather uppity over the last 120 years, then you can get access to the children.
Exactly. And even those men who don't want to exploit children generally have less sympathy for them, less contact with them, and less understanding of what they need. Generally.
So when this is happening plenty of suitably woke beardybros will claim that not allowing eleven years olds full adult agency in all matters is patronising. And plenty of male MPs will brush off concerns as overreaction.
The thing is,we could have this happen at the same time as a massive backlash in societal attitudes to divorce, homosexuality, single mothers, etc. It's perfectly possible. Gen Z are already very different to millennials or Gen X - they don't drink or smoke much, they don't have much sex, they spend more time online, consume porn but often have quite conservative attitudes, the boys are quite openly sexist, etc.
I'm sure I saw a survey about male engineers that stated boomer men were much less bothered by a female boss than millennial men.
We can never assume gains made will be kept forever automatically. And children will always need to be protected, and some bastard will always try to argue that we don't need to worry about it, but then blame women when kids are abused. "Where was the mother?"
A bit like we're not supposed to worry about men (in women's spaces or in general) because NAMALT but when something happens it's "what did she expect?" (A view particularly held by the young these days...)