You seem to like Occam's Razor, so what about this explanation: look at who benefits. You double the workforce (and so get to halve salaries and increase productivity due to competition), you cut down the birth rate, and you get worker bees who are ideologically motivated by fighting for their favorite cause, and so aren't looking to change anything about the employer-employee relationship. If you are a billionaire, sponsoring some talking heads to achieve this seems like a no-brainer.

And by the way, this doesn't mean I am saying "women should go back to being women" or anything like that. The billionaire class didn't turn women into men. They turned both women and men into sexless worker bees.