What sort of inequality do you prefer?

In general as far as men and women in the workforce goes it seems to me that the question to be asked is not can you eliminate inequality but what type of inequality you prefer. Let me offer you this bit of Longer Maternity Leave Not So Great for Women After All:

In fact, generous maternity-leave policies have a tendency to harden a country’s glass ceiling, and women in the Nordic countries are actually less likely to reach career heights than women in the U.S. (The one exception is in the political realm, where quotas have filled Nordic legislatures and ministries with close to equal numbers of women as men.) The U.S. has a higher proportion of female managers at all levels, as well as professionals and university professors, than northern (and the less egalitarian southern) European countries. Though the overall gender wage gap is somewhat higher in the U.S. than in the Nordic countries, that’s not the case among top earners. Female executives and professionals in America earn closer to their male peers than Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian and Danish women

In other words, women as a whole gain certain things with a Nordic model but women as individuals seem also to lose certain things in such a society.