'Feminist issues' have done an enormous amount to bring women's lives up to the standard of men's. My mother and her generation had far more limited expectations for their lives than girls and women of today. I'm afraid sometimes protest groups and movements for change have to be strident and 'in your face' in order to bring injustice to light.
Regarding Muslim women, my husband's large extended family are all Sunni Muslims, and don't veil their faces; legs, and one's hair are covered. But bosoms are nothing at all, and yesterday my husband told me that if one is a passenger on a crowded bus and a lady has a screaming baby in her arms, the entire bus will shout at her, "Madame, give your baby the breast!" in Malinke. Women sit there with their infants, both breasts completely uncovered and nobody bats an eyelid. I think that's natural and rather lovely.