This past Shabbos I read an article by Rabbi Shneur Aisenstark in Mishpacha magazine (June 16,’10) on the topic of liberalism.
Among his great article was one paragraph which can sum up the topic of this thread with a prominent Rabbi’s hashkafic view. He writes “Misguided Jewish women who bacame active in the movement did not undersand that in the Torah’s eyes, men and women are equal but different; they have different goals, orientations, needs, and obligations. The influence of the women’s lib movement caused them to feel that they should be allowed to do anything that a man can do, as long as it did not contradict their intepration of halacha…”