It&rsquo;s not like there was a public education system for males either, until the Industrial Age, which was a function of employers offloading the burden of training their workers onto the taxpayer. And education is mostly a waste of time regardless, outside very advanced education, like PhD level. Even in undergrad, they&rsquo;re basically just telling you to read things that you could study yourself. Plus, in the ancient world, many of these books and ideas weren&rsquo;t even written down yet. An ancient woman could have tried to figure out the circumference of the earth via the shadows off sticks, just as well as Eratosthenes did, but there was no woman who did that. Any ancient woman could have been a poet or a playwright, but the only famous one is Sappho. Some ancient women were reasonably successful merchants, such as Muhammad&rsquo;s first wife Khadijah, but most were not notable enough to make it into the historical record except as side characters. It&rsquo;s probably mainly a function of the female IQ bell curve being taller and narrower than the male IQ curve, meaning that there are both fewer female retards and fewer female geniuses. Women really love the idea that women were super oppressed and submissive for all eternity like pic related, but it&rsquo;s just not accurate. 