I get your point, but I don't think it is a man's responsibility to 'make life' easy, or hard, for women. In the West today women are generally less dependent on men for financial security. That's all.
Financial independence is a good thing. Women were 2nd class citizens in the work world even in my lifetime. We have gone from the man as head (and boss) of the household to a more equal partnership when it comes to earning income, household chores, child rearing, etc. I do think that some women undervalue men - and behave toward them in a manner they themselves would not tolerate.
Women
could run the world today - yet wise, confident women will always appreciate and acknowledge the role and value of men. The attempt to make us all the same is a mistake, and actually the opposite of 'liberating'. Liberating is recognizing and respecting differences.
(Personally tho, I think men are delightful creatures and every woman should have one or two.

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ps - it does seem a growing trend in media and ads to emasculate men - portray them as goofballs or incompetent, while the wise woman comes to the rescue. Stereotyping a gender, male or female, in such a way is wrong.