Historically as in recent history or more distant? In more distant history, yes most women had children and many men did not. In recent history (in the west),

Historically as in recent history or more distant? In more distant history, yes most women had children and many men did not. In recent history (in the west), I believe the ratio was much more equal due to culturally enforced monogamy. Obviously it was never 100% followed but I believe it made a very large impact on this metric.