You have completely misinterpreted the causes of that!
As the late, great Mr. Kevin Samuels never tired of pointing out, "...because men so civilized the world..."
In our natural state, men need women for sex and reproduction, while women need men for survival. But now that men have so civilized the world, women are less dependent upon men and correspondingly less motivated to overcome their fundamental feelings of "Ick!"
In the Animal Kingdom, dolphins as a species* would rapidly go extinct if the male dolphins instituted laws and ensured equal rights, because the female dolphins would then simply ignore them; copulation routinely takes place against the will of the female (so-called "coercive mating").
Amongst humans, this is perhaps not (yet) quite as pronounced, but a trend is observable.
Regards,
*Yes, I know that there are actually about 17 different dolphin genera and correspondingly more species, while this behavior has been reliably observed in only two species of cetaceans (the Common Bottlenose Dolphin and the Beluga). Sheesh! I'm trying to draw an analogy.
Sorry, that should have read:
But now that men have so civilized the world, women are less dependent upon individual men and correspondingly less motivated [...]Individual men have lost their "bargaining chips," because men now collectively provide the resources and services upon which women so desperately depend. Accordingly, husbands have been replaced with police, firemen, soldiers, sanitation workers, welfare / food stamps, etc. Men have been supplanted by the State.
Men have thus made the mistake of making themselves redundant by "civilizing" the world.
Regards,