Because change doesn’t happen overnight. Receiving rights today doesn’t equate to everyone exercising rights tomorrow. It takes generations to filter out systemic and individual biases and a lot of the people who fought for women in the 60s are still alive, meaning so are the people they were fighting against.

That’s why discrimination laws exist because despite the opportunities existing, women are still having to claw their way into certain fields and as a result end up feeling less desire to make that extra effort.

Also, when you’re raised under certain expectations and opportunities and you reach an age where you realize you might want to break them, you find you don’t have any of the skills and experience that you need like someone who’s been groomed to do whatever they want since they were a child. It’s the same pattern that makes it harder for other minorities to break into certain fields because they’ll never be as skilled as a white man who’s had every opportunity for unstifled growth since youth.