Greek Society...Could us women handle it?

After watching the documentary about ancient Greece from the people at Time Life, I began to wonder to myself if I could handle being a women in ancient Greece (or any American women in today’s society), in Athens in particular. The video suggested just a small portion of what I found was required of a woman in those times. It told of how women were seen as property, their marriage was arranged for them between their father, his brother and her future husband. The woman would have little to do with the marriage contract. Given the fact that she was considered property she was not allowed to own property and if her husband were to die for war or other means her father’s brother was given the responsibility to find her a new husband and if happened to be dead she was basically turned into a slave. One source that I found listed out a day in the life of a Greek housewife. Here is it:
7:05 Rises
7:08 Eats small piece of bread soaked in wine. Is still hungry, but must be careful about her figure
7:09 Pecks husband on cheek and sends him off to the agora. Sighs. Looks at the four bare (slightly tinted) walls. Rarely allowed out of the house, she prepares for another day at home.
7:15 Summon hand maiden to cool her with huge peacock feather.
8:30 All dressed up with no place to go, she wanders into the kitchen, eyes a piece of honey cake. Resists.
9:27 Hears argument between two servants, rushes out to mediate.
11:15 Wanders into the courtyard near flowerbed where slave girls are spinning and giggling. Asks to join them. Is reminded this is improper behavior - they suggest she ready herself for lunch.
12:15 Husband arrives, chiding her about the foolishness of make-up. Pretends to agree. Husband leaves at 12:22
3:00 Instructs daughter on her duties of being a wife.
8:05 Husband and wife sit down at low table to dinner; bread, oil, wine, a few figs, small portion of fish (only 320 calories) and beans. She hears about his day. He tells her she should not bother about the affairs of men. Pretends to agree. She is too hungry to argue.
10:10 Falls asleep. Does not dream of tomorrow. (http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/aegean/culture/womenofathens.html)
Interestingly enough this same suggested that women had a lot more power than was recorded or implied. It raised the question that if women were always seen as property and as lesser beings than why did Athenians worship and based their city around a goddess and they showed special affection and appreciation for the Greek goddesses. Another point to this was that women were often played key roles in religious ceremonies and festivals.
After reading about the treatment of women in ancient Greece, I do not think that women of our society today could handle being a woman in the days of ancient Greece. Women, in the United States especially, all want to show their independence and be their own person; this idea most likely would not have lasted in those days. Although the play that Aristophanes wrote called "Lysistrata," in some ways gives suggestion to the women’s independence movement.