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You fail to note the most important reason for the shift from RZ to charedi, and that is disappointment in the whole idea of the medine after the surrender of Gaza.
This affected not only young people but established older people as well.
RZ will cease to exist except in its “chardal” form in 2 generations. What you’ll have is charedim and stragglers, the stragglers being people who put on a small kippa halfheartedly and are really just going through the motions. If there is any more surrender of land chardal will disappear as well and its proponents will end up being out and out charedi kanoim because of their disappointment.
Haredi women are finding many, many other avenues of employment, assuming the government schools (not Chinuch Atzmai) ever were much of a source of employment and income for them.
More and more haredi women are finding employment in call centers, hi-tech, advertising etc, etc, etc and plenty open their own businesses in traditional fields like cosmetics, shaitlach, clothing, wedding planning and even not so traditional fields as their sisters do in the US and Europe. Your children will probably miss their dedication assuming that they ever did teach in the schools as you claim they did.
MO young people do not go into chinuch in the US; you know that and I know that. At best you have a few rabbis teaching until they find something better.
People want the real thing. They want to do it right or not do it at all. They know that outside EY and even in EY you can be charedi and succeed financially and be respected socially. And they saw how the medine treated them in Gaza and they no longer believe in Rav Kook’s erroneous ideology of reishit tzmichat geulateinu. You’ll find more people who professs to believe in that in Teaneck than you will in Yerushalayim.