Do We Really Need To Fight So Hard?

Women have been fighting for rights for decades. I, being one of these women, want to be recognized as strong and independent. I tend to look at women's roles in history as degrading but not very often do I really look at the importance of women in the world. Women's roles are very low in the tribal society. Agbala means woman. Agbala is the name of the oracle. The oracle is the prophet of the tribe, a very strong voice. Why if women are so low and dirty is the oracle's name Agbala? Looking at this all a little closer, did the men realize that women are strong? Did the men see that without women, the tribe would be nothing? I understand that beating wives was customary in the tribe, but women were very important to the men. Without the wives I think the men would starve. The women did all of the cooking and all of the preparing for ceremonies, I do believe that the tribe would be very weak without women. Do women really need to fight so hard for an image of a strong individual or are they already viewed that way?