Why are there more patriarchies in human history than matriarchies?
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Before modern-ish medicine (late 18th century), 2 out of 3 women were fated to die giving birth to their nth child.
That translates to 66.7% of the female population dying before they underwent menopause, at round 45-50 years of age. Might’ve been even earlier due to malnutrition.
It’s not a great policy to center your society around a group of people with that high of a mortality rate. There would be no stability in such a system.
Also, societies which *did* treat their women better, that is, the ones that didn’t treat them like baby factories, would get out-competed by the ones that *did* in case of plagues and wars. And both of them were way more rampant after humans settled down to farm.
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