It's relatively impossible when you really sit back and reflect on it, how to miss the fact, that as much progress in equality has been made since women secured the right to vote in the United States, the gender bias toward and gender importance placed on males is stunning.  The discrimination is absolutely everywhere, and much of it is so rooted into worldwide culture, that it literally will take a monumental intellectual shift to overcome it.  Certainly some cultures are ahead, but as an example culture via movies and television and economics, the USA has long served as the guide to the world on all cultural issues — sometimes unfortunately with gender bias against women being one of the worst.  Classic example:  the citizens would rather have a biracial, relatively ineperienced male senator followed by a narcissistic megalomaniac mysoginistic business man with zero political experience, three wives, and a series of bankrupticies lead our nation than a woman.