Yes, unfortunately for women, we work and do the dishes. And here are some statistics on women from last year:
a world where two-thirds of the poor are women. They are pointing out that 66 percent of the illiterate of the world are women who are being denied the right to an education. They are not unaware that 70 percent of the refugees and internally displaced population of the world in war-torn countries are women.
They know that women, even in Ireland and in developed countries in general, are still earning only 69 percent of male wages for the same level of work. A people in an agricultural country who have known desperate starvation themselves, realize in a way most don't in our part of the world, that women produce 80 percent of the planet's food but get less than 10 percent of the world's agricultural assistance and aid, even from nations like the United States. (/Irish Times/, Thursday, March 8, 2007, Mary Raftery, Trocáire ad deserves an airing, p. 16.)
And, finally, they are acutely conscious of the fact that women who are the backbone of the church everywhere, including in Ireland, are barred from the theological formulations of the church. They know that, however much women serve the church, they are nevertheless left out, even of its restored diaconate -- "not even given a chance" -- simply because they are female. Best of all, the questions are getting more numerous, more pointed, more revealing every day.
That is from an article about an advertisement for Lenten considerations from a church in Ireland. And the ad was banned because it was considered to be political.

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I agree that women did not have equality in a legal sense until fairly recently, but I also think that could be construed as advantageous to their situation.

And may I ask how you might construe that as advantageous for a woman? And please give me your evidence that men are still predominantly the bread winners. Women might still be the primary caretakers, but the majority work outside of the home as well.

As far as the argument about the CEO goes, I already said that someone who performs a job that they are paid a salary for, isn't required to give sexual favors to the boss, not anymore anyway. A prostitute isn't the employer, she is providing a service. The employer is not offering a service, he is offering to forward a career based on nothing but sexual favors. That is far more immoral than prostitution is.