Women have been consistently discriminated against more than any other class of people. They represent 50% of the world population and have been subject to prejudice and discrimination since the beginning of recorded history.
Just think what will happen when women get organized and start asserting their full rights. They will literally change the world. In addition they will bring lots of other discriminated against groups up along with them because they understand prejudice and discrimination.
Governments will tremble and religions will crumble when woman abandon their traditional roles and start exercising their rights. But that is exactly why it has been and will continue to be a prolonged struggle, because these are the very institutions that have the most to lose by women gaining their equal place in society.
However this will happen in generations to come and the world will be a better place.