I find that it really helps that I live in the States. I'm married to an American, and I have lots of American friends.
We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U. S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.