>In traditional farms, everybody worked. There was gender split in both power and tasks, but nevertheless, there is no entitlement to be idle. You don't seem t

>In traditional farms, everybody worked. There was gender split in both power and tasks, but nevertheless, there is no entitlement to be idle. You don't seem to understand the implications of that statement. In a country where the way to obtain food is tightly coupled to physical strength, men dominate because they are stronger. That's reality. Even though women can (and do) substantial, non-trivial, and important work, the work they do [in unindustrialized nations] is derivative of a man's; you can't operate on resources that aren't there (preparing food is impossible if there's no food to prepare). That's also reality. Those two things are the reason why women are second-class citizens in unindustrialized countries- implying that there's some grand conspiracy by men that makes this so is intellectually dishonest. Once industrialization renders the physical strength to resource equation moot, women are able to be productive in their own right (a farming combine does not care who is sitting in the driver's seat), and they become first-class citizens shortly thereafter as the Western world has demonstrated without exception. (Residual effects may vary and are to be expected because humanity evolved with this concept; I needn't elaborate as to what they are).