Speaking as a card-carrying feminist since the 1970s (or at least a subscriber to Ms. magazine) I agree with you.
Any major social change leads to positive and negative consequences, many of them unforeseen and unintended.
The women’s movement was a great benefit to women like myself. Intelligent, highly educated and talented in technical fields, I was able to enter a virtually all-male profession (industrial chemistry) and earn enough to buy a house at age 29. (Very rare for a single woman to buy a house in 1984.) Although I married, I didn’t have kids so I didn’t have the problems of being a working mother.
Many women suffered as a result of the change in laws due to the women’s movement.
No-fault divorce led to women (especially older women who had never worked before) being thrown into poverty without alimony.
Women have become more successful in school, more graduating at all levels than men. Whether or not it is connected, boys and men have slacked off, graduating less and working less.
“In the U.S … the 2020 decline in college enrollment was seven times greater for male than for female students.”
“Among men with only a high-school education, one in three is out of the labor force. For those who have a job, typical earnings are $881 a week, down from $1,017 in 1979.”
“Mortality from drug overdoses, suicides, and alcohol-related illnesses … are almost three times higher among men than women.”
Inactivity Rate: Aged 25-54: Males for the United States
It’s no wonder that women are stressed out. They are expected to work and also raise children. The men are slacking off and dumping the work on the women. And good men are harder and harder to find.
No wonder women are angry.
Wendy