Much of the inequality perceived can be explained by the different expectations people have been brainwashed to to maintain. I remember a doctor from Greece at a meeting at Hellenic College regarding training priests. Women wanted to know why they couldn't be priests as some other religions are now allowing women as ministers. The doctor told me women could never stand long enough to give a sermon because their bladders were too small! I was horrified by this physician's hold to the double standard of inferiority of women.
Woman's equal rights as a matter of law has been sought for more than thirty years but the overwhelming majority of male legislators have voted it down every time it came to a vote. If one believes that our forefathers meant to use the word 'men' as all mankind, there is already equality. But we know that our constitution did not include races as having equality so, presumably, this allowed some to believe that women were as inferior as slaves.
One might wonder why with the Phyllis Schlaflys of our country, any women ever became CEOs, hold jobs outside the home, or graduate from colleges with medical, legal, engineering and all other degrees. As always, women have been forced to carry more than their share of the load, dragging some of the few remaining Neanderthal-thinking males..
Hopefully, even if laws aren't changed, mothers raising their sons eventually will make chauvinistic men extinct. We can at least maintain hope. There is always a new tomorrow and prospects for enlightenment.
