Just look at the amount of women in high-level (or even mid-level) executive positions and the pay they receive compared to the men in similar spots. I can't deny the world is changing and our generation has been a huge catalyst in that and our children are far less prone to sexism or racism because of us but there remains many complete societies where repression based on gender is the norm. We can wish it wasn't still so in the western world but just like the rampant racism still in the deep south oppression of women is still around too.
Those numbers are increasing each and every day, and with the advent of higher numbers of women (compared to men) in post secondary - those numbers will again increase.
So - that leaves us with an interesting future ahead of us. The old-boys network will be replaced by the old-girls club, more women than men in positions of power, etc..
Will men now be justified in flapping their arms and thumping their chests in hollering discrimination, equal opportunity, changing the signage on the Status of Women Fed gvt offices to Status of Men?
You see where I'm going here... This suggestion that women are being oppressed
in contemporary society falls short relative to the realities of society today. Sure, inequalities exist today, as they will exist tomorrow and next year, but I don't buy the Oscar performances that cry foul about oppression in this day and age.
Put simply, it's an over-theatrical crock of sh*t
