The core principle of individualist feminism is that all human beings have a moral and legal claim to their own persons and property. It is sometimes called libertarian feminism. Being a feminist is a form of specialization. In fighting for individual rights, some people focus upon injustice to women just as others focus upon injustice to gays or children. Sometimes the inequality works to women's advantage, as in affirmative action laws.
Equality means neither privilege nor oppression.
Besides which, it hardly benefits women to have a paternalistic state treat them as children or 'lesser' human beings who need state assistance to become equal. Governments have been the greatest violators of women's rights for centuries. Whether through privilege or oppression, governments seem unwilling to respect the full and equal individual rights of women. Opposing affirmative action and defending property rights is generally associated with conservatives. Many conservatives are uncomfortable with the way ifeminism embraces radical civil liberties.