Its interesting reading this thread as it really brings home however much we might see ourselves as individuals, and think our family is its own unit, we are all products of the era we are born into.
So I was influenced without knowing what it was by the impact of women being "sent back into the kitchen" after WWII which is what Betty Friedan's book the Feminine Mystique covered as I saw it in the mother.
And as someone has said, 70s Women's Liberation couldn't have happened without what had gone before. Post war Brittain had so many what are now written off as socialist ideals, influenced by the sacrifices during the war of both those fighting and those at home. NHS, social housing. And a sense that a more equal society was possible. So many of the legal equalities that became law came out of trade unions. Much of what was then mainstream is now seen as radical socialism. Following the Thatcher / Reagan years we are now a far more right wing country politically, though socially conservative.
And on the life choices nobody every really talks the influence of the Beatnik generation who if anybody challenged accepted norms it was them. And following on from them was the whole rebellious 60s hippy left generation. And in fact it was the entrenched misogyny in both of these supposedly anti establishment movements that led to the creation of women's liberation.
And jumping forward, after the male backlash and the idea that women should somehow emulate men, we got the poliferation of pornography as main stream and (another product of queer politics in universities along with "gender") the idea that prostitution was just "sex work". And this of course intensified with the growth in social media, much of it set up by young men, we would now call incels, so that without even thinking the environment we are surrounded by is male dominated but in a way that is taken as the norm, because it is just seen as being part of technological advances.
I cant imagine how younger women, particilarly anyone born after 2000 can not have had it impact on how they see the world and their place in it.
So whichever wave of feminism you were part of or experience around you, the problem was that those taking decisions, implementing new ideas, etc., are 99.9% of the time taken by men. Who are consciously anti woman, but still assume that their view of the world is THE view. Even down to the fact that they dont make, or didn't make, PPE that was suitable for women.