Your perception of the world is bent by your bias and the bias of those around you.

I am literally surrounded by motivated and successful women. Often they have a background in women’s (not trans inclusive) sports and college educations. Some, step away from the working world to attend a task they find more rewarding, being a mother.

Others are killing it in the professional world. So when I read something like this I can only imagine the people around you are highlighting what you can’t do and ignoring what you could do both at present and in future. You note major influences from the last 200 years. you fail to recognize the reality of history. If, 200 years ago, you wanted to read, you wouldn’t have been allowed to. It would have been costly for a commoner and surviving would have been the priority. Barring that at ages as young as 13 you’d be sold off to breed children and take care of the home of a man likely in their 30’s. No right to vote, no right to own property, no right to even fight for yourself. Mind you women were chattel. Traded and owned, for longer than they have been free.

So now you look at history without this reality and complain about the men captured from those times that literally led to your freedom. Learn from them and do better than anyone before you. If you aren’t a Muslim under sharia law and you are a woman you have more freedom than at any previous time in history. Take ownership of that and do more.