Men are/were typically considered dominant because of their testosterone making them the natural leaders of whatever tribes they consisted of. They evolved to be leaders, and as sexist as that may be, it is true amongst almost any other animal that one gender evolved to dominate over the other. Hyenas, interestingly enough, have females as the dominate one in their social hierarchy, as female hyenas typically have much more testosterone than men, and do most of the work in their clan.Kil'jaeden wrote:Society does promote gender roles, but I have never heard of a society that just came out of nothing. Why is it we find the same pattern with the genders so many times? I do think men and women are different, no matter how much some people try to say they are not.
The difference between humans and most other animals, though, is our intelligence, which is why things like gender roles are so different to us.