Like M0nica, I have always taken feminism for granted. I don’t really need the word. I too was brought up in an environment where male/ female equality was taken for granted. My education was as important as my brother’s. My parents met at university in the 1920s, and it was taken for granted, both at home and at school, that I would go to university too. I went to a very academic all-girls school. I didn’t realise for many years that my mother going to university in 1925 was unusual.
I can honestly say that I have never suffered any disadvantage because I am female. - though I suspect there have been some advantages. My job of university teaching treated men and women equally. There were female professors, though there were more men, I suppose. I wasn’t ambitious, so this didn’t affect me personally. I wanted children and I wanted to look after them myself, which I did. That is where I had an advantage over men, who would not have been expected to have that choice.
I realise now that many women were not, and are not, treated equally with men, so there was a need for a feminist movement.
I feel I’m not expressing myself very clearly, but it’s very early in the morning!