most men never were equal to women. Power strucure goes like this, controlling male, controlling female, other females who vie for the controlling male's attention and vie for position, other males. this is how it's been since forever
in today's society each family tries to be its own power structure, so technically every male gets to be in control, gets to have power in his hands, but this I do not agree with, some men simply shouldn't have any power in their hands ever because they are cowards, and another thing that happens is since these men are cowards the woman starts to take control, which I also don't like because women are cowards. They are smarter and wake up to the importance of having social power very early and so are better at it, but never the less they don't belong in power
by social power I mean just that, there's power that comes from having leverage such as resources aka money, having physical control aka the guys who control occupy wall street can point to a store and it will be occupied or whatever, then there's the power of making people feel good, looking at a person correctly, touching a person correctly, showing affection
this is what women are good at. Want to know what is social power? Shake a woman's hand. Notice the feminine touch is, well, feminine... it's weak, a man doesn't put much thought into his hand shake even if he thinks he does, but to a woman every touch is an opportunity to conquer with affection