My name is Eric Leo, and this is my take on gender equality as a sociologist and social psychologist. I want to do something with this post that most writing on the subject doesn't do, which is treat gender equality as one enormous system instead of a single argument. To get there I leaned on six documentaries: Gender Revolution , The Hunting Ground , Seeing Allred , Tricked , Miss Representation , and the "Why Women Are Paid Less" episode of Explained . I also pulled from talks and reporting by Elliot Page, HeForShe, TED, Jordan Peterson, the World Bank, and the UN. To make the whole thing usable, I split it into six categories: LGBTQ, phobic, sexual, mental, feminist, and economic. Fair warning before you dig in. I am going to walk you through some evolutionary arguments I used to find persuasive, and then I am going to show you where they fall apart. I think that's more useful to you than pretending I arrived at every conclusion cleanly. LGBTQ: Sex Is What You...