You say now we have a situation where people don't really know what they voted for, that's absolutely correct. I would suggest the majority (Not everyone though) of those who voted leave did so over one or maybe two key points that were important to them such as control of borders, immigration...
I'm not an expert on this subject by any means, but again my generation is probably going to apologise for something that happened well in the past. I understand that in the past women were not dealt with fairly and as second class citizens in the eyes of the law and that was wrong, but it is...