PROLOGUE
In the early part of the 20th century there was women's liberation and feminism took hold.
Women strove for equality, or rather equal opportunity with their male counterparts.
There were many changes made for the better.
In the later part of the 20th century and the start of the 21st century, most women felt they had achieved equal opportunity, but some women knew there was still more to be done. Despite having more women graduate from university than men, on average women were in lower paying jobs, and it wasn't uncommon to still find women being paid less for doing the same job.
Around this time some men began thinking that women had gone too far in areas such as child custody, and divorce settlement, and the men's movement started gaining momentum.
Since most feminists just wanted equality, they let the men's movement be, for the time.
Women continued on their path to equality. There was a big boost with the rise of new reproductive technologies that gave them more control over when and how they could have children.
And with changes that allowed more men to stay home and look after the kids, more and more men became househusbands while the women went out to work.
Eventually true equality was gained, but then women began to surpass it, as women were found to be better managers, better educated, and more balanced as individuals.
The men's movement had grown, and decided that women had taken too much power and decided to challenge it.
Unfortunately, the men's movement wasn't large enough, it's supporters weren't strong enough in their convictions, and the women in power portrayed the men as wanting to take things back to the bad old days where women were expected to marry young and give up their careers for family life.
This caused an uproar and laws were passed, supposedly to keep things equal, but in effect it worked to keep women in high positions.
Society continued the trend of women gaining more power, more privileges over men.
Around this time global warming was really starting to stir things up. Water was running dry, and refugees kept flocking to the first world nations that had better insulated themselves against the symptoms.