You can regard both as detrimental to equal human dignity in different ways. For most of human history you had exactly this. Women having little means to contr

You can regard both as detrimental to equal human dignity in different ways. For most of human history you had exactly this. Women having little means to control their reproductive status (treated as property, no concept of marital rape), and men being forced to partake in the wars of their tribe/nation/state. As society expands the rights of the individual over the utilitarian needs of the collective, both become less tolerated by society.