I think that when women are younger, with everything supposedly available to them, and when they have young children plus a husband and feel they want to be at home, then the idea of being able to become a CEO or getting a good pension seem kind of irrelevant.
In my 20s I thought I was free and equal. In my 30s I was bring up kids as a single mum, and now in my 40s I am floored by all the ways I have been effectively hobbled and have less than almost all the men I know.
I have also started to come up against the ageism in my working life that particularly seems to affect women when they are no longer young and pretty, and have realised just how much being young and pretty had to do with the fact that men were generally nice to me.
There has definitely been a push accross the world in general to put women back in their box, to tell us we have enough, that women are just as violent as men, that we are asking to be abused, that we dont really want economic freedom, that our bodies are not really ours, that being female is a choice, that we don't want or need the things men can expect as their right.
Young men still don't wonder if they can have children AND a career, and young women still make excuses for shit, lazy and entitled behaviour from their male partners.
I don't know that I want women to be front and centre. I just want women to be regarded as equally deserving of freedom, safety, dignity, financial freedom and opportunity. People might claim to want this, but actually they still see males as the default human.
So yes, maybe MN is less feninist than before, or maybe it just seems to be now that I have moved into a different and clearer-eyed life stage.