Womens Rights in Ancient Greece

In book 7, Socrates tells Glaucon that all he has said before concerning ruling the city should be applied to women as well as men.I believe that it is incredible that Socrates views women as leaders instead of servants or slaves, as most men of that era believed. This idea is revolutionary in a time that women were to only work at the home doing domestic chores while the husband was allowed to participate in politics as well as his other jobs that supported his family. To think that an ancient Greek man thought of something that finally took place in America's 1920's. Could Socrates have been the first women's rights activist in society that was male founded and ruled?  It shows that Socrates was not a respecter of persons, atleast in the sense of gender. I wonder what a modern day Socrates would think of our society and what kind of changes would he or she make on a global scale. What would the world look like in his/ her wake? Would he/she meet the same fate? These questions may never be answered, or they could depending on the outcome of the future. Only time can tell.