These dramatic changes are precisely what makes the history of gender so bewildering. If, as is being demonstrated today so clearly, the patriarchal system has been based on unfounded myths rather than on biological facts, what accounts for the universality and stability of this system?
As like other myths that just were made up by sapiens in power at a particular time, the myth of the superiority of men also came from somewhere. But how at any moment in history were males in a position of power and how women were so powerless that they let these myths run. Who were those women, how their life looked like. Who were those that agreed to the idea of male superiority.
