As the replier said, it had been firmly ingrained into women's (and men's) minds that a woman was inferior to a man, especially when it came to things such as politics and education. Then of course most all of us know of the women's suffrage rights activists and protests and such, as women's rights expanded, and they got a taste of what it actually means to be free, I believe human nature kinda took over from there (I think part of human nature is to always strive for something more and better than what you have) the same can be said and seen in the end to the slavery of African Americans, and others throughout time. But like I was saying once women were given the rights and privileges men had (not trying to lessen the extreme criticism and hardship women had to go through to get those) they would, according to my theory, strive to attain an even higher level of power, which is causing us to see a role reversal, definitely so in the U.S. Personally I'm not sexist but I enjoy telling a chick to make me a sandwich every now and then :3