Lost in Space
I was watching this last night and spotted something. The episodes name was "The Challenge." It's fun to find out that Kurt Russell was in this episode as the kid that challenges Will Robinson.
What was more interesting is that this episode was in the 60s, and they were technically promoting equal rights for women. Say what? (You can see the full episode on hulu.)
I'm paraphrasing but this is what was generally said:
Dr. Maureen Robinson: "Not on our planet, we're (women) treated as equals."
...What was her planet again?
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and how the planet for Equality fared.
Usually in these cases is that a good ending is usually because of a man/men got involved. and the Equal Planet might have been a joke - like, sure! what could possibly be stranger in the universe than equality between men and women! haahhaa.
Between that and the Civil Rights Act it was common for mid-late 1960s science fiction films and series to assume that equality would happen in their fictional, future era.
As for Lost-in-Space, thinking gender equality and family space travel would be the norm in 1997 was a bit optimistic 
