When western women complain about having to work in off days, or about having to work at all and care for children, they give evidence to extremist organisations like the Taliban, who use the ''unclean' label to for refusing to allow women to work at all, or even go to school once puberty kicks in.
When they hear western women complain, it reinforces their own rules and punishments, sort of proof that their treatment of women is OK.
We shouldn't complain about having to work, because both sexes have now to contribute to the general economy if we want to see the country succeeding. At the moment, that will not happen, but give it time and another election and who knows?
If you study social history, you will see that some male students received more pay/grants than female students, especially in hospital nurse training, even after the NHS. That was in areas where their was practical work, and not just study. It was very difficult for women to even think of going to university unless their fathers paid high fees for them, and few did.
It has always been unfair, and sticking a load of women in Westminster is unlikely to change the attitude, because they all have male bosses.