Not much more to say on Sparta except that it was one of the few, if not the only, Greek city state where foids had inheritance rights and we for sure know owned property, but Athens are much more insteresting in this. Mainstream historians's view of it is that it was one of the most "patriarchal" and "oppressive" societies that ever existed in Europe, but I wonder whether it couldn't more correctly be described as a gender segregated society, and whether it was that way because of its crazy wealth instead of any ideology about sex roles?
Athens was ridiculously rich for its period, so I wonder whether the reason foids were so restricted from owning property and such wasn't simply because they didn't need to, since foids can always just find some man to simp for them (the same reason why there are and always have been much more male homeless sleeping on the streets), and when basically every man out there was rich, there was absolutely no need to give anything to them, since that would just deprive those women's brothers from property they would actually need. Similar to, as you pointed out below, the fact that gender differences get more pronounced in more gender-egalitarian societies, except in this case, Athens would get so gender segregated purely through its crazy wealth.
The labour market might have been very gendered. The more gender-egalitarian a country or state is, the more gendered is the labour market. The Scandinavian countries, for example.
It closely mirrors the arrangement we have today. Women leave their hometown for more glamorous opportunities, while men leave to wageslave.

Do you think it's because foids know men would never act on it?
Or do you think, even in the worst-case scenario of losing voting rights, not much would change for them?
It just shows how aware of the normie male psychology foids are.
I think it's as simple as foids talking about it because that's what they are told to talk about their entire lives. Honestly, that entire "issue" gives off a serious "Midwits screaming at each other over stuff they don't understand" vibe.
For 99% of democracy's existence, neither gender had a universal right to vote. In Britain for example, the same laws which gave foids the right to vote also did so to the remaining 30% of men who didn't have that right as well. The "it was an issue of whether all foids could vote, or only all men could" isn't how it would've been thought of outside of maybe very small, very specific periods of time in a couple of places.
However, all of that is just skipped over, because
that's how foids see it. Both genders have the Apex fallacy clouding their view of the world, and history, and foids also have their in-group bias affecting them. Therefore, foids look at the already poorly-taught past, only the "women couldn't vote" part is told to them and it's also the only thing they care about, even if their in-group bias doesn't affect them, their Apex fallacy view of the world makes sure they don't care about low-status men also not voting, men either also only ever get past democracies explained to them only as "men could vote, women couldn't" or, even if it's explained to them that voting was absolutely a privilege, they'll just assume they'd be those privileged men dur to Apex fallacy and main character syndrome, and so that's how it's seen.
Then, foids have it drilled into their heads, constantly, endlessly, by all media and the entire political sphere, that they are oppressed, that they are victims, that all of history is just foids being oppressed, and that becomes how they see the world and history, because how and why tf it wouldn't


? So, they'll start making their worldviews based on that, and what is the symbol of "female oppression" in democracies? The fantasy idea of long-suffering females being unable to vote while all men could. Therefore, that becomes an integral part of what they imagine "returning to the past" would mean, and it becomes what they start kvetching that rightwingers want to do, and rightwingers start repeating it right back, even if they would've never thouht about that, solely because foids make it clear that that's what triggers them.
As a result, neither side actually has any real understanding of the past and those complex issues, all they have is a foid oppression fantasy with all the low-status men removed that they share, and that's what they scream at each other over.
Women have it easy no matter what you do
True.
They didn’t need to work, pay bills, pay rent, go to war, etc.
They always worked and paid bills and rent. The only foids in recent history who didn't do so were those lucky enough to be born in specific places in the time when those places became rich enough that foids could afford being simped for by the men they married their entire married lives.
"The desire to free oneself from work was common to all classes and both sexes. Dr Joanna Bourke of Birkbeck College, London, has studied the diaries of 5,000 women who lived between 1860 and 1930. During that period, the proportion of women in paid employment dropped from 75 per cent to 10...
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Foids never going to war, because society valued them while men were always seen as cannon fodder, is the only truly consistent gender difference on a societal level.