There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same. If society has become more corporate and homogenized over the years. When DiFranco began performing, the music industry was dominated by men, something the folksinger occasionally takes a poke at in her songs. Today, women are more of a presence.
People are much more used to hearing chick singers on the radio.
There's art irony to it because women have always played music. When Sarah McLachlan started Lilith Fair a few years ago, DiFranco seemed an obvious name to appear on the bill of the traveling concert featuring female performers exclusively. Yet it never did. Lilith Fair - right away, by the name, you know they aren't pushing the envelope hard enough. She even joked about starting her own tour - the Rolling Thunder Pussy Revue.