> Not sure if that's the case in historic Germanic regions It wasn't (aside from food and other common needs). > it's a crutch to take the principle "women ar

> Not sure if that's the case in historic Germanic regions It wasn't (aside from food and other common needs). > it's a crutch to take the principle "women are universally oppressed by men" I did not say that. The OP spoke of centuries where arranged marriages were common in Germany, and there's no doubt that women did not have equal rights during that time. The crutch here is to define "success of marriages" through fertility rates and number of divorces.