Personally, I don't really like getting special treatment for being a woman. I was raised to be a person. My parents didn't raise me like a little girl or a little boy, they raised me to be a human. They also told me that there (other than biological differences) is no real difference between men/boys and women/girls. People only act in steriotypical ways because that's what their parents and society at large raised them to be.
Girls are conditioned to like pink and dolls and to be afraid of insects/arachnids and reptiles. Girls are also conditioned to speak a lot and be frail and sensitve.
Boys are conditioned to like blue and trucks and to get dirty and loud. Boys are also conditioned to be aggressive and get in fights.
Pity that society enforces these "Norms" according to what has always been put off as true. If more people would raise their children in the manner that I was raised, then there would be true equality. Pity they won't.
However, I was raised under a modification of Chivarly. I was raised to always act with honor, always tell the truth--no matter what, and to defend those who cannot defend themselves. It still is a big part of who I am. It is "dyed into my wool" if you will.
There will only be true equality when people raise their children in the way that I was raised--to be a person and to look at other people as just that--People.
(If this is nonsensical, I apologise. I'm in a lot of pain, today. I had to take my pills, so now I am a tad "floaty")
~Nemmeh