I am just tired of fighting the flow of history, and complaining about gender apartheid in oil states while the world lurches into resource wars just feels like the ultimate futility.  IMO, the 1970s were humanity's last chance to head off all the catastrophes that are unfolding now.  The last chance to get serious about population stabilization, to prepare for the transition to a post oil infrastructure, to complete the enlightenment by removing ancient tribal superstitions from public policy.  Establishment of universal human rights including gender equity would have been a part of that.  Well, humanity failed all the tests.  We acted like the only slightly upgraded Homo ergasters that we are.

We decided as a species to continue investing in living arrangements that were increasingly oil dependent.  We doubled the global population and the cult of consumerism and endless growth spread worldwide.  Hundreds of millions embraced the various fundamentalist religions, including insane death cults who believe global thermonuclear war would trigger the rapture.  Feminist splinter movements within traditionally masculinist cultures (never more than a small minority of women) were a passing artifact of the cheap oil era.  As the world becomes poorer, and once again more local, gender relations will return to the local past.

In a few places like Scandanavia, NZ, and Oregon's Willamette Valley, the deep rooted local cultures of gender balance will persist.  In Mississippi and Afghanistan the patriarchal plantation master and warlord will rise again.  There is no more hope of changing this than Jimmy Carter had of selling peak oil mitigation 30 years in advance.  Going forward, post peak women will need the same things that men will need - allies who can help acquire and defend survival resources.  There will be no post peak sisterhood other than ones biological sisters and in-laws.