Why is it that society was able to convince women that they need to act like men to be an equal with them? if has to be the best marketing scheme ever. For hundreds, if not thousands of years men in all cultures have looked at women as a second class citizen simply because they were not men. 

Imagine today if it was the other way around!

Men fighting to be able to stay home with and not be scorned for it. Millions of dollars would be going into research so that men could become pregnant and nurse babies. Men would constantly be told that they should get more in touch with their feminine side and try to come off as softer. the list can go on and on.

What is wrong with being different, but equal? G-d made the world in such a way that both male and female in their respective roles are needed to make the world go ‘round

In religion too, we each have a special job to do, we each have a special mission, and it is because of who we are, either male of female that that mission is appropriate and possible.

Noone would ever say that men and women are the same physically, mentally or emotionally, so why do we have to be the same spiritually? We don't! and we're not!

Judaism sees men and women as two unique partners needed and necessary to fulfill the intention of the world.

This article on Jewishwoman.org really sums it up well

http://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/376141/jewish/I-Am-Woman.htm