Historically, the balance of power had lent slightly towards the workers. It enabled them to drive down the wages of both sexes and scaled back the hard won improved working conditions of workers. With the rise of unemployment, poverty levels have risen causing some three quarters of a million children today to be living below the poverty line. It's the other side of the 'equality' coin that we never hear about. There are very few areas of endeavour where the outcomes to the sexes are equal.
Males also make up the majority of the unemployed.
I don't think so. There is a vast difference between equal opportunity and equal outcome. All that equal opportunity requires is that both men and women have equal access, and that no impediment is placed in the path of one sex. It does not mean equal outcome. Outcomes will never be equal on a level playing field.