Well, females wont be needed much longer. Fairly soon reliable, artificial wombs will replace the need for tantruming hysterics.

Robert

It's easy to give someone your chair and open the door for them, as
opposed to actually paying someone for the hours they put in raising 6 to 10children.

The respect wasn't actually for the woman herself anyway. In a time of no effective
contraception it was always possible a woman could be pregnant. Men were
in fact actually putting their prospective unborn children first rather than their wives and partners. In fact they were protecting any genetic biological offspring in their wives wombs.

The older women were the wisest in society and their authority and wisdom and caring,
was much respected by their large families, but they were still not allowed do to earn a paying wage or have holidays or weekends free like men were.

Women had the young children and babies hanging off their skirts and in their arms
while their husbands considered weekends to be their time off and went off to the pub or playing golf with their mates.

No! Opening a door or giving you a chair because you were old or pregnant, did not
make up for the unpaid slave labour of women. It was the least of what they could have done to help women at the time. But in reality offered no real help in the shape of a fair and equal status, wage wise and labour wise.