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To be fair, the latter is more about equality in terms of intrinsic value as humans, and thereby in the face of law, which one could argue was the aspiration at the time; as for the implication of the two statements, yes.
For the record, I agree that females are very much protected and less lucrative on average in today's society (this is a statistical fact), this can, unsurprisingly, result in a general loss of respect for women in the eyes those who observe it, which in turn, in some cases, is unjustly applied to all of women, creating another form of problem.
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