That they would fully understand that they have roughly 50% chance of getting the raw end of the deal, but still think that this deal would maximise their welfare overall?
A lot of oppression of women seems to be justified by claims that if women aren’t second-class citizens, they won’t choose to have children, or at least not enough children for replacement. This makes women’s rights into an existential risk.
This argument also implies that societies and smaller groups where women have lower status and more children will out-breed and so eventually outcompete societies where women have equal rights. So people can also defend the lower status of women as a nationalistic or cultural self-defense impulse.
A lot of oppression of women seems to be justified by claims that if women aren’t second-class citizens, they won’t choose to have children, or at least not enough children for replacement. This makes women’s rights into an existential risk.
This argument also implies that societies and smaller groups where women have lower status and more children will out-breed and so eventually outcompete societies where women have equal rights. So people can also defend the lower status of women as a nationalistic or cultural self-defense impulse.