It's about being able to choose to be an engineer or a bus driver if I enjoy it, and not be judged for it. But at the same time, I can choose to be a housewife, and it won't be considered a "betrayal of progress." Equality gives me the freedom to be who I want to be, not just who I'm stereotyped as.
On the other hand, this applies to men too. I often notice how society puts pressure on them from the other side: don't cry, you're the breadwinner, you have no right to be weak. And I think true equality will break down these barriers too. If we want men to respect our choices, we must respect their right to be sensitive, tired, or fragile when necessary. This doesn't make them weak. It makes them alive.
But there's an important point here. For me, equality isn't synonymous with sameness. I don't want to be "like a man." I want my feminine traits my empathy, my intuition, even my emotionality to be valued equally with my masculine rationality. It's not competition. It's symbiosis. When two halves complement each other, rather than vying for power, the result is something truly healthy.
In everyday life, it looks like this: I can easily pay for dinner at a cafe if I want to please someone. And it doesn't humiliate me. And if a guy makes me breakfast, it doesn't make him any more feminine. We're just people who care about each other, without looking back and asking who's to blame.