Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.
There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.