True, but there's a very good chance you earned more than her anyway
For the average female CEO to earn the same as her male counterparts, she would need to work until she was 89.
This may have been tongue-in-cheek, but it is effectively what I am referring to; wilfully ignoring any scenario or situation where a man may be disadvantaged, and purely pursuing the one where the woman is.
I think if you want true gender equality then both "sides" need to be considered and pushed for. This doesnt mean that if there is one area that a man is disadvantaged and fifty where the woman is, that you should spend 50% of your time fighting for that one - but that in practice there are plenty of ways in which both genders suffer from stigmas, stereotypes and bias. In my previous work, I noticed that certain male managers within the business tended to prefer hiring young, attractive females and showed a lot of bias in the recruitment process based on looks, and I bet that goes on on every high street in the country - that is the "ugly" truth (hur hur).
There are other well-cited examples that affect men such as the whole courting process - the man has to "chase" the woman, has to pay for everything. A lot of women I know like it this way, they like to play hard to get and are happy to conform to the (wrong) expectation of society in this area. Throughout pretty much all of school, university, and early working life, women can and do potentially rely on their looks to get ahead.
The "paternity" debate has already been done in this thread but you can throw that in the mix.
Then there are these bizarre reverse-racism/sexism cases like the Rooney Rule, which can be extended to practically all western advertising/marketing - companies feel obliged and pressured to ensure there is a perfectly equal balance of genders, races etc to avoid being seen as racist - but that is for a different thread really.
Basically, modern society is filled with stigmas, stereotypes and sexism/racism in different ways. Yes, it affects some groups more than others, and yes there are things which will affect women but not men
. Trying to focus exclusively on improving things for one gender is not, in my opinion, the way to gain support and fix these issues. I suspect that if a lot of feminists abandoned the "Feminism" tag and called themselves "Equalists" instead, and put more emphasis when promoting the movement on equality for both genders, that the movement would gain a lot more male support and would be met with less resistance.
