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[[File:The Rescue of Guinevere.jpg|400x400px|thumb|''The Rescue of Guinevere'', by William Hatherell.]]'''Female sex favoritism''', sometimes known as '''chivalry''', [[gynocentrism|'''gynocentrism''']], or the '''knightly treatment of [[women]]''', has a long and storied past. | [[File:The Rescue of Guinevere.jpg|400x400px|thumb|''The Rescue of Guinevere'', by William Hatherell.]]'''Female sex favoritism''', sometimes known as '''chivalry''', [[gynocentrism|'''gynocentrism''']], or the '''knightly treatment of [[women]]''', has a long and storied past. | ||
Female sex favoritism has arguably always existed across most | Female sex favoritism has arguably always existed across most (though definitely not all) cultures as evidenced e.g. by women's higher historical [[reproductive success]], however this article tracks the particular strand that we recognize in the West today. | ||
==Possible evolutionary basis== | ==Possible evolutionary basis== | ||
As a result of their greater [[Bateman's principle|parental investment]], women have socially, and by [[wikipedia:Epigenetics|epigenetic theory]] evolved to be [[sex drive|choosy and passive maters]]. The mathematical fact that in ordinary gender distributions of roughly half male, half female by birth (not modified by external events) that there will be far more fertile men than there are women in their prime fertility years, plus men seek to monopolize women early on to be [[paternity assurance|certain about their paternity]]. For these reasons, women, especially young women are naturally the highest goal men compete for and hence there is a natural tendency for women to be treated as special and to be put on a pedestal. | As a result of their greater [[Bateman's principle|parental investment]], women have socially, and by [[wikipedia:Epigenetics|epigenetic theory]] evolved to be [[sex drive|choosy and passive maters]]. The mathematical fact that in ordinary gender distributions of roughly half male, half female by birth (not modified by external events) that there will be far more fertile men than there are women in their prime fertility years, plus men seek to monopolize women early on to be [[paternity assurance|certain about their paternity]]. For these reasons, women, especially young women are naturally the highest goal men compete for and hence there is a natural tendency for women to be treated as special and to be put on a pedestal. | ||