While feminism has largely liberated women from domination and domesticity and helped them find new identities, the paradigmatic male identity has largely remained the same. The way society is structured still favours men in power, and certain attributes like strength, courage, assertiveness, and aggression. This model however doesn’t benefit all men and hinders them from forging their own identity and version of masculinity. A feminist men’s movement could help with that, writes Ashley Morgan.  

Women have come a long way since the eighteenth century, and their lives do not have to be dominated by domesticity. In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft published her book, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she proposed the idea of women’s equality with men, especially in terms of education. Wollstonecraft could see the problem of a society in which men dominated women, and this book acted as a springboard to early feminism. Most decades since then have been characterised by at least one feminist movement. The present decade is no exception as demonstrated by the #MeToo, #NoMeansNo and #ChangeTheDiscourse movements, women still must push to get themselves heard.