I think that we overestimate how far we have come. I am starting to see things phrases like "better than the 80s" and so forth (in the 80s it was "better than the 60s", by the way). On top of that we tend to compare the past with now - we forget that 100 years ago both men and women's lives were much harder (men were down mines or in factories or in the fields). So I don't think that the relative gap between men and women has closed as much as we like to pretend...
It's important to note that feminism isn't a new thing, you can even identify some female Shakespeare characters as expressing "feminists ideas". Unless you think that love is a modern invention, husbands will have presumably supported their wives' wishes, and fathers their daughters' wishes, throughout history.
It's just what we consider to be the desirable goal these days has changed: "go out, get a job, and earn money". Probably in 100 years' time we'll see that goal as exploitative as "build a happy home with your family"...
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