Feminism- valuable success or grotesque failure?

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Option 1.

Also, I must be the only one who thinks that a considerable distance must be traveled to true gender equality-- for both men and women.

Men have yet to achieve equality. We have fewer choices; the stay at home dad is usually not an option. A man who shows emotion or who doesn't fit the stupid 'Homer Simpson'  stereotype is at risk of being labelled 'unmasculine'. Men are still expected to pay alimony in the event of a divorce even if the wife did not earn a penny, just to support a high lifestyle. We are overwhelmingly discriminated against in the child custody process. Our role as fathers has been suppressed by society.

Most of the disadvantage however still falls to women.

Only about 22% of Congress and state legislators are women, and even less for the Senate. There have yet been no women Presidents or Vice Presidents.

Women are still paid less, even when adjusting for factors such as taking time off for children or choice of profession. This difference is especially pronounced at the executive level. In movies for example men are given far more leading roles.

Unlike most industrial countries, there is still no law that allows parents to take paid leave for raising a baby in its first months, and this falls disproportionately on women. Yet women are still expected to be primary caretakers.

The sexual double standard obviously exists. While men and women are nearly as sexually active, women face more criticism for being so, and given negative connotations whereas for men there are positive ones.

Bottom line-

The truth in any social situation is that whomever gets the most attention has the most power. In society today men get more attention. For example, try the most simple, basic thing imaginable.

Do a 'Google' search for the word "he"
688 million results
"she"
293 million results

"his" plus "him"
890 million results

"hers" plus "her"
385 million results

Until these results are roughly equal there probably will be oppression of women by society.