>If they were enough by themselves, the current >displacement of sex roles would have happened when dairy >farming was invented. :-)
I will say to you like I said to the other poster, babies can't drink cow's milk. Not untill a year or so out. Not to mention the invention of bottles would be a factor, even if they could drink the goat's milk (an alternative to mother's milk) The invention of the bottle pushed things along, but even that wasn't readily available for cheap untill the later part of the 20th century. The invention of things able to allow the mother (including birth control!!!!) to be able to leave the children to work is what changed the roles. And that doesn't necessarily make them bad.
Again, this is just a distraction! Radical feminism was an overreaction to some things in society that weren't fair. Like a lot of social movements, it promised more than it could deliver.
But the notion that radical feminism "paved the way" for equality b/w men and women is ridiculous! In many communities, men and women were already equal. I'm glad women have more opportunities now than they did, but of course it doesn't solve the problem of how to parent children. Children need parents (mother and father) so everyone can't have the same level of a career at the same time.
That said, many women are no more swayed by a cute candidate pushing a certain political agenda than men are swayed by a cute woman pushing a certain brand of beer! We all can be swayed by a pretty package, and we all can remember: buyer beware!