many people need to study history and how grey gender relations really were. men were Never (en masse) "enslavers of women" and wealthy patriarchs. how could women be enslaved they were essential to 97% of the populations as farmers and hard workers. the effete self-indulgent modern housewife was a product of increasing wealth/capitalism from the 16th century onwards, women could afford to have an easy life as men could earn more wealth, the gender distinction between men and women were much less for thousands of years as less wealth and technology for the masses women had to be like men ! just look at "2nd and 3rd world nations" how women are masculine/practical