Modern Day Jewish dignities???????

I must say that I grew up in a non orthodox community.  This is not a value that I began my experiences with, but rather, one that I have come to feel is truly needed and clealy not done for the sake of discrimination or segregation of the opposite gender.  
Jewish prayer services mandate that a separation be constructed between the male and female worshippers.  This is called a Mechitza.  Balconies do work as well.   I do not have the Torah knowledge to give you an indepth discussion as to the history and rationale that is involved in this barrier, though I must report that I know this to be true and right and proper.   I do not completely feel that it is a barrier to "keep the men from having illicit thoughts" about women.  Surely we are way beyond that as a culture.   Clearly the rationale by many Jewish people in the 1800s that began the movements that abolish the presence of a mechitza can be rationalized and even thought to be understood.  Clearly woman are very important to our lives and their presence in our day is essential.  The idea of a family services where you sit with your entire family of course appeals to anyone who does not have any idea of the importance of this "traditional" seeming contraption.   This is not so.  It is my belief that one who prays in a separated presence has stronger kavannah (intent) and that one is able to strengthen the devotion and worship of Torah.   Praying in mixed seating, though sympathetic to those without Torah knowledge, is actually harmful at many levels in my beliefs.  I personally think that in the presence of a mechitza, your prayers are like quartz in the sunlight. Without a mechitza, I would suggest that the prayer is of the quality of paper in a hurricane.   I am not trying to be arrogant or scornful, but rather, I feel that this is a mistake that was made in an era whereby emancipated ideas flowed a new.   I do personally believe that the need for a mechitza is part of oral torah, the ways passed from generation to generation, though not in writing.   I must say that I no longer feel acceptable to pray in mixed congregations. I do not consider myself a misogynist and I do indeed resent the claims that men are chauvenistic and overbearing in a traditional Orthodox Jewish community.    Perhaps this is not the time that this will be relieved, but I must say that I would welcome the chance to pray in any congregation that erects a mechitza, if only once in 3-6 years.  Perhaps have a 'traditional' service once in a while just to show people what it was once like in some of the more 'traditional' communities.  This is indeed the way of our people for generations.   I must report that I find that the english translations used in reform congregations to make sense to me in this day and age and that I would not feel slighted in the least in an abbreviated worship experience once in a while.   Just get a mechitza.