Hi Elizabeth.
I have to say that when reading your posts I feel that there is a misplaced level of bitterness in your words towards men and that the world you believe you live in is certainly not the world the rest of us live in that's for sure.
You can be whatever your heart desires in this world. Women are in power all over the world and doing all the same things men are doing. The president of my Country is a women. Your friend in the UK lives under the rule of the Queen. About the only thing women haven't done yet is set foot on the moon and you can be sure that the reason NASA didn't send a women to the Moon wasn't to do with their sex.
Ok the world is not a pretty place, but it sure ain't the sexist place you make it out to be.
Equality starts within you know...!!!!
Regards
James