What does this quote mean? What is she(Virginia Woolf) saying? And don't be biased.?

Question

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself." - Virginia Woolf

Answer 1

She is simply saying that it is far more interesting reading about mens objections to women gaining power than the story of the women gaining power itself.
Power was a mans thing and women were believed to be no more than housewives for such men. Was it any wonder the men who had this thrust upon them back then were very apprehensive.
These days, fortunately for the ladies, times and ideas are changing

Answer 2

I think she's saying that it's more interesting to find out why men have had a long history of wanting women to have little power than it is to read how women began to gain power.

Answer 3

Reading about the way in which men opposed or tried to keep women from having equal rights as men is more interesting than reading about the way women gained equal rights..

Answer 4

I don't believe in nauseating rewards to my children for doing the right and appropriate thing. I do reward them, of course, usually with more responsibility which integrates the positive behavior they have learned.

The emancipation of women is the right thing. To noxiously reward the opposition is an abhorrent idea.

Historically, men have disregarded the rewards of an equal relationship with the women in their lives. They categorically refused to take advantage of the benefit of strong, empowered women. Their patriarchal apparatus is a far more interesting area of the study of women's liberation than the simple truth of the equality of women.

It took and takes enormous energy and effort to continue the subjugation of their female peers than other efforts of control of large groups of people, like religion. Why? Because the necessity for the freedom and equality of women is unequivocally obvious. There are no metaphysical debates that can occupy the minds of men for eternity when confronted with the female contribution to society as equals.