As a female I feel that 'feminism" has actually set women back.
I am old enough that I remember when men tipped their hats to women,even young women,gave them the seats on the bus,and held doors for them.
In the old days women like my mother were not the weaker sex,their strengths were just in different areas than the men.
The strengths of each sex complemented eachother.
Yes, and in the "old days" (the 1970s) I was unable to rent an apartment without my father's signature on the lease, although he was retired in Alabama on a disability pension and I was a successful engineer. Because he was a man and I was 'a girl'.
And in the "old days" I could not get into law school, "because it's no use teaching girls to be anything; they just get pregnant and quit." I was told that my scores on the LSAT and my university grades "are high enough if you were a man, but WE DEMAND HIGHER GRADES FROM THE GIRLS."
I have been fighting for 40 years against this "Men are men and women are girls" mentality and I'm sick of it. However, I expect this entire generation of men have to die off, and the last one to die will be moaning 'NO GIRLS IN THE CLUB HOUSE!' as he shuffles off to a Heaven in which he will be horrified to find that women are not kept around only as brood mares and sex objects and typists.
Unless he's a Mormon, of course.
Absolutely, we are still suffering the consquences