The simple reason why males oppress women is because we are weaker than them physically.
Biologically, if males can control us then their chances of reproduction are higher and as we are weaker physically than them, this made it easy for them to impose that control. This is clearly why patriarchy became the dominant society of humans since the beginning.
If a woman wanted to survive, she had no choice but to submit to males or else they would kill or abuse her as they had the power to do so.
Nature is cruel, it doesn’t care that males can use and control us physically because we are physically weaker than them. That’s just the way things are, is it fair? No, but nature is far from fair.
Certain women throughout history who rightly viewed this loss of dignity as worse than death fought diligently for their freedom. Many had tried and sacrificed their lives, and it was a very slow burn but eventually enough women fought against the institution that some changes were made in society. This mostly happened to happen in the west.
We are at the crux of our freedom right now, women before us have gotten us more freedom in political and societal power, enough so that women can refuse to date males relatively safely.
However this safety won’t last, the more women who rightfully separate from males, the angrier and more aggressive males are going to get, as we see in their current reactions as low-birth rates and decreased interest in marriage statistics are revealed.
We are going to return to the root issue again, the more women choose separation, the more males will want and try to control us physically again because they are physically stronger than us. However, we need to use that increased political and societal power that our foremothers granted us in our fight this time. Bottom line, the question will be again: “Do you want to submit and be a slave to males? Or are you willing to fight with your life for your dignity and freedom?”
Will women ever be fully free? I think nature has designed women in a way which means we will never fully be free in life, as the very reproduction of our species requires female suffering. However, if even for a few decades women could finally be free before the human species dies out, then those of us who are currently here could live the rest of our days in peace and die knowing that we avenged all of our foremothers who fought so diligently for our freedom. Personally I think that this is very unlikely to happen, mostly because majority of women will always choose males over their own dignity. It has always been that way, and probably always will be, but a few of us have evolved and we will fight for our own happiness and freedom.
The only path to possible liberation is to stop engaging with males romantically and sexually.