I have to admit to being extremely tired of the trope, seen most commonly in advertising and bad TV, of the idiot, bumbling, incompetent yet overconfident male screwing things up and his finger-wagging wife knowing better all along.
But that's hardly inequality, just a pet peeve.
Until the opportunity cost of having children is borne equally between both sexes, any inequality between the two will probably continue to favor males. While those child support payment horror stories sure sound bad, imagine how many thousands of pages you'd need to document every case of a woman being left on her own with children and having to give up anything she's ever wanted -- career, education, etc. -- to live in near-poverty to support them.
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