Open Question: How is the modern man to read the Mixed Messages from todays woman?

From Yahoo Answers

Are we providers or partners? Soul mates or survivors? If a woman is to provide a literal womb, is a man to provide a financial womb? Does equality mean equality of choice and opportunity? Are we gentlemen, or just hapless mugs who take every risk to win a woman with no guarantee we can keep her? Are women addicted to the old ideals of chivalry and security, whilst demanding the modern choices of equal opportunity in the workplace, equal wages, and equal say? How is a modren man to react to such mixed messages?