Had males been there to protect my rights, my honour; i wouldn't have been a feminist.

I think it's worth noting here that it was never the responsibility of "males" to protect the rights of women, but rather the responsibility or "people" to protect the rights of people. This has been a failure of both men and women. Both men and women are responsible for how society turns out and if women were restricted to lower valued roles this is a large part the fault of women who were actually more comfortable with these roles which often offered more security and less work.