What is it biologically or psychologically about human males that resulted in most cultures across the world being male dominated?
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Most of human history was about who was stronger. If you were the stronger warrior then you were the leader of the tribe……….. because you killed the last leader due to the whole being stronger thing.
The stronger tribe would defeat the weaker tribes.
Stronger kingdoms would defeat weaker kingdoms.
And so on.
For the vast………. VAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAST majority of this it was the men who were the strongest. Most combat was about brute strength and endurance and even an average man was better at those than most women.
So men became the leaders. Women were needed to produce babies for the next generation of warriors and females. If a tribe lost most of its men it could still survive because each man could impregnate multiple women. The reverse is not true.
So the men, being the leaders, created systems which benefited them and kept them as leaders. They could divorce their wives if they didn’t give them sons because everything got passed down to sons because daughters were only good as property to be “sold” off for alliances (whether between families, tribes, kingdoms, etc).
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