Things to Think About

You tell someone that they are weak.
They are fragile.
They need protection.
They are not intelligent.
Coddle them.
Teach them to sew instead of fight.
To be silent instead of protest. 
Prevent them from acting out by systematically punishing them for doing anything that you didn’t teach them.
Tell them that they must rely on you for protection, intelligence, happiness, and survival.
You make sure to create conditions in which they are completely dependent on you. 

Throughout history this is the type of oppression many cultures inflicted on their women. This is what I say to all the people who claim that women have never been oppressed, that men made all the roads and bridges and innovations. It’s never been that women have not been capable, but it is the case that women are constantly told that they’re not. Were specifically prevented from doing so and punished if they tried. Give them mundane tasks so that they have some sense of accomplishment and aren’t tempted to venture out of their predetermined roles. Let them be flaunted as a trophy. Seen as more object than human.
And when it’s been passed down through generation after generation, you can bet that it’s been instilled deep in the subconscious of society. 

This is what I see when I look at European and American history. And in some aspects of other cultures that I don’t know well enough to feel comfortable speaking on. Women being under the impression that men are inherently “better”, feeling reliant on them for everything from pleasure to construction. And none of it has any objective truth, only the beliefs on which this society was constructed on. Challenge those beliefs, that foundation, and people won’t let it go peacefully regardless of the results.