For everyone saying it made no difference, all movements have started with protest. The reason you can vote, go to work, own property, have parental rights over your own children and so on is because people protested. Because they stood up and said no.
And from everyone saying that we already have lots of rights so what's the point of the protests, we still have so far to go. Woman still struggle to have control over their own fertility. There are countless stories of women having a coil or implant fitted and when the want it removed due to adverse side effects they're told no, ride it out (in other words, just put up with it). Women who know they want to be sterilised and are told no because they might change their mind, because they or their husband (or future husband if they're single) might want children/more children. There are women in the UK who don't have access to abortion services. Last week the government finalised criteria for claiming tax credits for a third child after April 2017, part of this guidance states that if a third child is the result of rape, the victim must prove it was rape. Is it any wonder that the large majority of rapes and sexual assaults go unreported when shit like this is being spouted by our own government? Also last week a Sky news reporter said live on TV that if a woman has provoked a man by wearing revealing clothes and drinking, she possibly deserves to be raped, he likened it to being punched in the face due to provocation. We still live in a world where if you get drunk, you're asking for it. If you lead him on, you're asking for it. If you consent to see with one man and he then invites another man to join in, you automatically consented to both. If you go back to someone's house, you asked for it. Walking around alone at night? Asking for it. Short skirt? Asking for it. People teach their daughters how to avoid being raped, how many teach their sons not to be rapists? There still exists the double standard of the slag versus the stud. Still the notion that a man who speaks his mind is direct or forthright whereas a woman who does the same is a bitch. We still earn less than men over the course of our careers, less likely to be promoted, less likely to work in certain sectors, less likely to be a CEO. Our daughters are conditioned to be nice, to be compliant, to please people and to nurture whereas boys are conditioned to be loud and boisterous, to take what they want, that "boys will be boys". If a boy is horrible to a girl, he must have a crush on her - I've seen threads on here saying that exact thing - and she should be flattered. Flattered that someone is treating her like shit!? We're constantly told in a million subtle ways to know our place, stay in our lane, put up with it - you can drive and vote and work, what more do you want?
The people in power should be promoting equality, not working to keep us down.