Do you feel like men and women are equal?

I am a strong believer that women can do whatever a man can do BUT…… I feel like older generations have different beliefs which if strong, they pass down to their children. That being said I believe a woman has to work harder to get where she wants and to earn respect, males just automatically have that respect. I would have loved to be a 50s house wife, baking and cleaning while my husband went to work, but my husband was self employed as a mechanic and ran a shop by himself so when business picked up I was there to help and learned how to work on vehicles myself. I felt equal then but i had to hand out tools for a few years before I got there.