Is Our Society Really Male Dominated

 We hear it over and over.  I've heard it all my life, and I think we all have.  We've been conditioned to believe it, but is it true?  Is our society really male dominated?

The vast majority of wealth is owned by men.

Women do more unpaid labor. (ie. house wives, mothers, etc)

However, the wealth mentioned is a tiny proportion of men, whereas the vast majority of disaffected people are men.  The vast majority of people in prison are men.  The vast majority of the homeless are men.  Most victims of violent crime are men.  Most people who commit suicide are men.  Most people who die in wars are men.

People who do worse in school are men, and there are no programs encouraging them in math in sciences like there are for women.

When you look at the fuller picture, dominance isn't quite how we've been conditioned to feel about it.

It is true that in the past, men were the bosses of companies.  They were the majority of the political leaders.  There was a day and age where women were not allowed to own property.  But the property restriction went away.  The glass ceiling has been broken in management and in politics, with women being the CEOs of some of the biggest corporations in the United States, and in some cases, the world.

Looking at the subject with modern eyes, and stepping back for a moment, it becomes clear that we've been conditioned to look at a tiny sample of highly successful people (men) and drawing a conclusion that this is male domination.  But if this were true, why are there more homeless men than women?  Why are there more men in prison than women?  And why are so many more men killed in war than women?

The whole subject seems cloudy, but looking at the broader picture and ignoring what we've been conditioned to conclude, it calls into question how true the statement of male domination in our society really is.