TLDR : A post I made a while back. It is in response to men who make idiotic statements like we should have never given women rights. They do not realize it but they are buying into the modern feminist myth.

Market forces not feminists gave women rights. The big one was the steam engine and later electricity. The steam engine allowed heat to be transformed into mechanical energy. This mean physical strength was no longer as important.

http://acrackletsthelightin.info/2016/04/28/steam-electricity-cotton-female-rights/