You can agree or disagree, but it's what the evidence supports and what is widely accepted amongst most anthropologists.
"Labor roles became more gendered as well. Generally, men did the majority of the fieldworkwhile women were relegated to child-rearing and household work. Without contributing food (and by association, without control over it), women became second-class citizens. Women also had babies more frequently, on average once every two years rather than once every four in hunter-gatherer societies."
For many primates, the alpha is not the biggest or the strongest, but the one who can create and maintain the best coalition - but then again, we are rather different from other animals, in large part because we transcended hierarchy and created enforced egalitarianism as a survival strategy. Humans don't compete for mates prior to copulation; they do sperm competition which is why the head of the human penis is shaped the way it is, to scoop out the semen of other men. It's why the human cervix is designed to sort genetic material for compatibility amongst a variety of offerings. We are designed as multi-maters - at least until patriarchy came around just a few thousand years ago. Then we brought hierarchy back for the first time in millions of years.
The Trope of The Farmer’s Daughter
How gender inequality was cemented by plowed agriculture
medium.com
"Meat was a very small portion of the diet of Paleolithic peoples. As such, female gatherers were central to the survival and well-being of the tribe.They weren’t sitting at home, tending the fire and the children, waiting for their one mate to provide for them. That’s a very recent and geographically specific dynamic.
Sociologist Rae Blumberg has pointed out that it is only for less than 3% of human history and in this one type of agrarian society, that women have become fundamentally dependent on men. Plowed agriculture turned on its head the prior dynamic of women as competent, self-sufficient primary producers who make their own decisions relatively autonomously."
"Today, most anthropologists would agree, regardless of their stance on issues such as the universality of male dominance, that an entirely different order of male dominance became associated with the rise of the large and populous agricultural states organized in terms of classes. The patriarchal systems that emerged brought women for the first time under the direct control of fathers and husbands with few cross-cutting sources of support. Women as wives under this system were not social adults, and women’s lives were defined in terms of being a wife. Women’s mothering and women’s sexuality came to be seen as requiring protection by fathers and husbands. Protecting unmarried women’s virginity appears to go along with the idea of the domestication of women and an emphasis on a radical dichtomy between the public and the private sphere."
I'm willing to hear/learn more specifics about indigenous North American tribes and precontact Polynesia, although what I know of that is that polyandry (multiple husbands) was common for high born women precontact. But everything else I've ever read over many years supports the fact that patriarchy is only a few thousand years old. I'm open to hearing more though... Agriculture is the end of egalitarianism, both between genders and on a wider scale as well.
