And women don't have an innate drive for, I don't know, self-defense? Since an individual woman's ability to fight off an individual man is not always a failsafe, they accomplish this by recruiting other members of society to protect them. The patriarchy may suck, but it's supposed to work as a mutually beneficial relationship where women do stuff for men in return for not getting beat up and raped.

I mean, not that it actually works that way. Often it's "not getting beat up and raped by anyone but her husband". But that's the idea.