This is incorrect. There were no women’s rights and the men were very definitely in a position of privilege.
THis seems silly to make a general sweeping statement about male privilege and males oppressing women throughout our entire history. It perhaps shows the ideological thinking rather than the reality of what happened.
For example the average peasant during the medievil times was poor. Everybody worked including kids. There was no concern about equal rights as people were just trying to survive. They worked together to survive.
Under Greco-Roman rule women were subservient. But once Christianity became the religion of the Roman Empire this changed womens status and rights where under marriage laws men and women were more equal and women had the right to property and the husbands estate once he died.
The Romans allowed adultery so women were treated as sex objects. CHristianity changed that and gave women more rights by putting an end to extra marital affairs.
It was males who invented the Pill and sanitary pads which freed women to be able to go out into society and work without worrying about being bound to the home pregnant or housekeeping.
As mentioned males ended up dominating work in our early history because most work was labour intensive and suited for men and not because they came up with some evil plot to deny women the right to work. Once work expanded into less manual labour women then began to move into the workforce.
Today things have almost done full circle where now there is less manual labour and more human service jobs which women now dominate. Are we to say that women are forming some oppressive matriarchy where they have privilege over males in modern society. No this is just a natural evolution of society.
Soon most jobs will be replaced by Ai then are we to say that robots are oppressing people. No once again that is the natural progression. Women in business will support the same things men do once they get there. If anything there is a class destinction of the rich and poor and the upper class don't care about gender. Women are happy to join men at the top of the working hiearchy when it comes to money and the privilege that goes with it.
Not everything was about one sex being evil to another but rather much was dictated by the times, the culture and the environmental factors that in how people lived.
Go back long enough and a father would would be paid a cash sum if a daughter was raped because he could no loner expect a bride price and would have to support her.
Yes that was the system back then. But your taking a small aspect of this system and twisting it out of context to make out that males were being oppressive. As part of the many variations of that system whicvh was based on property and inheritence which included the transfer of property through marriage.
There were different versions of this which included women and their families being gifted with money and property. There were also endentured slaves for which women did own as well.
This was a different time but it certainly was not some evil plot created by men to oppress women. It was an entire system for which women bought into as well just like they do today in joining males at the top of the work hiearchy and enjoying tho privilege that comes with it.
For much of our history males have naturally formed hiearchies when it comes to work and providing for families. They dominated as hunters out away from families to find food to survive, they dominated early manula work in building cities and infrastructuire and they dominated war as part of protecting our way of life. None of this domination was because they were evil oppressors. Only a small portion of men became tyrannical and oppressive.
