If "feminine awakening" wasn't happening how did we get MeToo? That was an example of Women learning how to use tech/social media to make their voice heard.

No Engineers were required.

These are Social problems not Engineering problems. And most Engineers would fail a high school Sociology class cause they just aren't exposed to that entire subject. For the education system to produce a Engineer+Sociologist time required would double or triple

Since Learning takes time, how society gets around it is via division of labor/specialization and multi-disciplinary teams.

So if you are in tech/engineering and want to contribute to social problems, get on multi-disciplinary teams which have experts in sociology/economic/political science/psychology/law etc cause they have already put in the time.