Feminism's motivation and its focus on making women more like men

Early feminists believed that women suffered tremendously, with high mortality rates in childbirth, exhaustion, food scarcity, and challenges of motherhood in the 1800s. Their motivation was to help women as women, but the problem arose when feminism focused on making women more like men, perceiving men to have an easier life due to not dealing with their own fertility. This highlighted the societal arrangement that idolizes the masculine, leading to the perception that women's lives would be better if they were more like men.