Over the years many of us fought for equality for women.
Equal rights financially so we could have our own mortgages, bank accounts, credit cards and own our own property, to ensure our property wouldn’t become our husbands upon marriage.
Equal rights educationally so we could attend further education, be plumbers, be carpenters, barristers even judges - perhaps professors in universities
Equal rights sexually so we could be in control of our own bodies, rape could he reported whether in marriage or not, the right to contraception and abortion (whether you agree or not) it was not in control of anyone else but ourselves.
Equal rights in the workplace, so we could be paid the same money for doing exactly the same job, so our rights were the same as men, so that we didn’t have to leave our jobs when we married so we received the same pension at the same time as men (quite rightly for men who were penalised for many years)
so many things had to be fought for, they’re not all listed here
but now
Women aren’t even recognised as being deserving of
the right to their own changing rooms
the right to female own hospital wards
the right to female on female searches
the right to female only nurses/doctors
the right to their own female sports teams
the right to their own toilets.
etc.
AIBU to think equality for women has taken a HUGE backward step?
For context I’m a very happily married woman who thinks men are wonderful.