Are Women their own worst enemies?

I have a female friend who was at a get together of other women recently. They had originally met as a group of mothers at their kids' pre-school and now, some 10 years later, they were together again. My friend is a now a single mom, but is sexually self-realized and has decided that she no longer needs marriage as a part of her lifestyle. The other moms were either still married, or had moved on into other relationships. There was a strange reaction when she told about how her life was. There was no reference to her intimate life, mind you. Some of the women that she considered to be friends in the old days shunned her. She was rather taken aback at this but it did not spoil the general good tone of the party. She brought this up with me after a few days and we talked about what may have been going on. One of the things we discussed was that maybe the friends were either jealous or even scared of her. Why jealous? Because her demeanor is one of a woman who is satisfied and happy with herself, and therefore life. She gets what she wants without having to obey the rules of having to "give" herself to a man that she should live with. Perhaps that is what these women truly want without having the self-confidence or self-worth to be able to accomplish it. Scared, because I feel that "conventional" women see a loose, sexually-free woman as a threat. A threat to their ideals of marriage and social conformity and a threat to themselves directly, as they would not like their hubbies to come anywhere near this woman. This is clearly how women are supposed to react; as a part of the game, they are expected to uphold the patriarchal conventions of subservience and possession. A women should "belong" to a man and a man should "belong" to a women. That is marriage, isn't it? It seems to me that the witch hunts of previous times were not instigated by men, rather by women who were jealous and scared of any women who was free, wise and attractive. This attitude was reinforced in Christian lands by the church. Therefore women were demonized if they were not under the cosh of a man and some dreadful crimes were committed against them. We don't burn witches today, although in some cultures, any woman who deviates is punished by stoning to death. In so-called civilized countries, it is still the norm to ostracize free-thinking, free-living women and cast them as sinners and a threat to the institution of marriage and the family. I don't think women, generally, have come very far since the witch-burning times. What a shame. If we are going to move forward or even survive as the human race, we need to get back to appreciating the Divine Feminine in every woman. That means first and foremost that women have to listen to their inner voice and rediscover what was so prominent 10,000 or so years ago. Other women who are on the path should support every effort by their sisters and not feel envious or resentful. Only when all women are aware can they hope to educate men on how to treat women as Divine Love Goddesses.