I support gender equality but doesn’t the fact that women have been oppressed throughout history suggests they are the weaker sex?

As a woman myself, I am not saying this to offend any woman.
I am only objectively trying to analyze why women have always been the” victim “ of oppression and suffering across the globe.
I mean doesn’t the fact that we had/ have to fight so hard for our rights from east to west indicate that we have less influence than men or that it’s a man’s world?

Please comment objectively

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ServantOfTheGoddess · 61-69, M

Yuval Harari has an interesting discussion of this in his book Sapiens (or somewhere :) ) and comes to the conclusion that we really don't know why oppression of women has been so widespread. He notes that it is true that men, on average, are physically stronger than women, on average -- but that doesn't really explain this pattern, since it isn't usually the physically strong men who are in charge of society. Front-line soldiers should be physically strong, but the generals and politicians who send them into battle often are not.

I don't have a good explanation for this bad pattern either. I only hope it is changing.