As I noted, the application is always more difficult than the philosophy, although there are many, many people in our culture who do not wish to see actual equality because they are sure that means they will lose some of their privileges. Also, conscious beliefs in equality do not always result in behaviors driven by things deep in the subconscious. As previously noted, sexual harassment is a power move intended to police women back "into their lane." It wouldn't be such a huge issue today if most people actually truly believed in equality, not just in theory, but in practice. The other statistics I named wouldn’t be there if most people were on board with actual equality either.

When people are marginalized and discriminated against for no other reason than some immutable trait, and when that marginalization and discrimination is still so fundamentally a part of our social structures, it's very naive to think that the answer is to "treat everyone like an individual." If they were being treated that way, they wouldn't be suffering. Black mothers wouldn't be dying at three times of the rate of white mothers due to childbirth if conscious beliefs in equality were enough.

Edit: and we need more people/more men to understand that because the social system needs to fundamentally change if we are ever to have actual equality ala Star Trek.