“I really don’t think that in the modern world we need a label for “someone who believes in equal rights for men and women” any more than we need a label for “someone who thinks that we shouldn’t have slavery” outside of the Muslim world.”
Michael; Are you talking about legal rights or social attitudes?
In some countries, one can maybe argue that the job of liberal feminism is done as that see’s the solution to gender equality through political and legal reform, although if you look at the reality of the situation the even the UK, this becomes an untenable argument as of yet.
Social attitudes are the more interesting part for me as that’s where the psychological bias exists. Even certain items of clothing such as skirts are still seen as fit for only the female sex! Ohoh, except for kilts that is...
an anecdote on the existence of inequality between the sexes? i propose a fairly easy to conduct and very practical experiment, although this one is for the male readers and is more based on negative social attitudes rather than economics. go to any clothing or charity store and purchase [or ask a friend or two of roughly the same stature and build to borrow from them] an item of clothing (something plain and simple that others of the same age as yourself might wear) that hangs freely from the waist down and doesn’t join between the legs, although for the purpose of this experiment we’re going to exclude a specific subset of this variety of attire, the kilt. wear it for a few days, in a variety of situations (work, out around town, family occasions, etc). what you will very likely experience practically mirrors the attitudes that were seen in the early 20th century society in regards to the phenomenon of women wearing trousers. this, if anything, shows that there is a long way to go for equality between the sexes, even in matters assumedly as simple as that of clothing. on the other side of the coin, note that for a female to go bare breasted in public in the same locations where a male can is also an equality still not enjoyed in most parts of the world.