I think he lays out his arguments well, though more sources for the data he cited would have been nice.
One thing is missing though, imho: in the past, men have actively hindered women to pursue "male" activities, like getting an education or joining the armed forces, against the women's will.
The reason behind that could be that the competing large groups of men required soldiers, and lots of 'em. Less soldiers meant your neighboring tribes could defeat you, or you couldn't conquer the world. So instead of allowing women to become independent, study and possibly bear less children, they enacted policies to ensure "maximum womb utilization".
This is and was oppressive, and should not be forgotten.
You should probably expand on this. In particular, tribe men prevented tribe women from getting education in what universities? Some stories of women trying and being prevented from joining military forces of the tribe? Please name some of those tribes what were using writing and warring with neighbors while dreaming about world domination. Maybe examples of those policies? Places, dating, document texts?
Fine, replace tribe with nation then, and my point still stands. If you want it more concrete, I'm willing to narrow it down to: most european nations until the 20th century disallowed women from joining the armed forces or attend university.
I'm not aware that other regions handled things very differently, apart from a few outliers, but happy to learn about them.
One interesting example is Israel, where women had serve in the army since the foundation of the the state. Even more interesting when considering the huge loss of life due to the holocaust.
One thing is missing though, imho: in the past, men have actively hindered women to pursue "male" activities, like getting an education or joining the armed forces, against the women's will.
The reason behind that could be that the competing large groups of men required soldiers, and lots of 'em. Less soldiers meant your neighboring tribes could defeat you, or you couldn't conquer the world. So instead of allowing women to become independent, study and possibly bear less children, they enacted policies to ensure "maximum womb utilization".
This is and was oppressive, and should not be forgotten.