About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.
Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.