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You're assuming that women didn't have "power." I would argue that women have always had power, and the problems we're having now is that we've dismantled nearly all checks on female power.
Their power was indirect. They had control over those with power, but attempting to leverage it outright and directly would be stilted heavily. So they needed to work through their husbands, fathers, etc. Their gaining of power was them seizing the ability remove that individual element, and instead leverage society as a whole as their new daddy with little restraint on what whims would move into action.
To deny that change is to deny that being able to open a pickle jar with your barehand instead of a gripper tool isn't an increase of power. Regardless of the result being equal.
I'm not denying that change; it sounds like we're in complete agreement. Women have always had power; it used to be a different type of power that (typically) had to be exercised through someone else (an implicit check on it), and now that check no longer exists.
We are in agreement then. I am simply used to people saying "ackshually it was the super shadow cabal who controls everything making them think they had power!!" so I countered a little wider than needed.