It's never a good idea to go intro gender conversations these days, but a couple of points:
1. there were plenty of societies where one sex had it worse than the other. From what I know of theirs, I'd be shocked to here they were egalitarian.
2. Women had what we'd recognize today as jobs, and in a tribal society those were just as hard as they needed to be - it was more or less an extended family. Men on the other hand used weapons, which suggest they were quite a lot more exposed to being killed. Women would have been harmed only in a wipeout, but as a man you're never sure you'll still be alive next year. Romance aside, I know what I'd chose.
1. there were plenty of societies where one sex had it worse than the other. From what I know of theirs, I'd be shocked to here they were egalitarian.
2. Women had what we'd recognize today as jobs, and in a tribal society those were just as hard as they needed to be - it was more or less an extended family. Men on the other hand used weapons, which suggest they were quite a lot more exposed to being killed. Women would have been harmed only in a wipeout, but as a man you're never sure you'll still be alive next year. Romance aside, I know what I'd chose.