Fighting other hostile groups is older than homo sapiens. While the idea might not sit well with you, its deeply engrained in our nature and history.
Groups that developed techniques which allowed the women to fight alongside the men had a much higher survival rate and dominated those that didn't. You see this with things like the bow and arrow and other ranged weapons. Either women learned how to use them or the neighboring tribe that did overran you.
Recognize that for 99% of women today this is irrelevant because they can outsource security through taxes and democracy. Which is fine as long as law and order persists. For me and my tribe, anyone can wash the dishes just like anyone can put rounds on target.
"Thus was the history of France logically developed in obedience to natural laws; such has, to a greater or less degree, always been the result of irredeemable paper, created according to the whim or interest of legislative assemblies rather than based upon standards of value permanent in their nature and agreed upon throughout the entire world. Such, we may fairly expect, will always be the result of them until the fiat of the Almighty shall evolve laws in the universe radically different from those which at present obtain."
- Andrew Dickson White
Fiat Money Inflation in France.
