Konkatsu -- "marriage hunting" -- but why?

Today's Wall Street Journal has this front page story on "kondatsu" or "marriage  hunting" -- the hot new thing in Japan.  Apparently it is more popular among women than men, and the economy has something to do with that.  One 35-year-old female office worker is quoted as saying, "I want to get married because I sometimes feel like quitting my job."  Yikes!  Relationships are foundational to well-being, happiness, the "good life."  (No, you do NOT have to be married to be happy or live the good life; not my point.)  But entering a primary relationship on the basis of such reasons is not an indicator of good times ahead!  Don't know how prevalent such feelings are in the US, or how much young American males perceive such thoughts to be driving interest in marriage in the young women they meet.  But, to the extent males sense it, it has to be a huge turnoff to the idea of marriage.