&gt; Why not help both men and women? Why does one need to be first?<p>Because whenever there are limited resources available to help people, there&#x27;s going to be a need-off to decide who takes priority.<p>A lot of politics flows from this. This is why you will often find lots of jockeying for position and heartstring-pulling from nonprofits and NGOs. If you don&#x27;t do well enough in the need-off, you might not get any resources.