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Most societies of antiquity forbade the education of women, which played a large part in why most of the writers of antiquity are male.
One of the first societies that encouraged the education of women, was that of the Byzantines, and we have several prominant women writers from the Byzantine period that write about history, phylosophy, warfare, politics ... as a point of fact, you can read Byzantine history from now until eternity, and not find a single author, male or female, that wrote about "women's issues."
I'm not a feminist. I think feminism had it's purpose at one time, securing the vote for women ... securing roughly equal pay for equal work ... allowing access to educational opportunities ... and of course, Title-9, which has allowed several of my friends to get an education based on athletic accomplishments. Everything else is just fluff ... designed to stir the pot, stir the masses, promote political agendas and most of all, sell books.
That said ... revisionists can't run away from history. At one time, in western society, there was a need to brand men as "the enemy" on certain issues. It certainly wasn't women that were denying women the vote. It certainly wasn't women that were denying women equal pay for equal work. It certainly wasn't women that limited access to college prep. classes on the high school level, such that young girls were not at all ready to enter college. In the 1940's, here in Texas, they actually passed a law requiring High School seniors to passing a required class in order to gain admittance to state funded Universities. This same law, excluded minorities, one of which was women, from taking this class. This law stayed on the books until 1963, which is how private schools like SMU, Trinity and Rice, became so female dominated.
Many men (not all) spent thousands of years doing everything they could to keep women down. Women are not down anymore, so either they must have been strong enough to bring themselves up, or men gave in and gave them equality.
If it's the former, that is natural evolution, and the only answer is, that if someone doesn't like their lot in life, they need to work harder.
If it's the latter, men got what you wanted, so stfu. 
Most societies didn't have formal education. I assume you mean Greco-Roman culture.
As for men denying women the vote. For how long do you think there was universal male sufferage before there was universal sufferage? The fact is that most societies were run by a minority of males, not males a s a whole and that the female relatives of the governing males had far more power than the majority of males who had no more power than the femals in their own social class.
As for equal pay. In the industrial revolution women earned more than males because women accepted cheaper wages hence industrialists employed women before males. They then employed children because children cost less than women to employ. It took social movements of men and women to get reform and women and children out of coal mines and steelworks. No doubt feminists see this movement for reform to get women and children out of heavy industry as a male conspiracy so men could earn a living instead of women.
The whole feminist view of history is cockeyed and skewed to it proving what feminists want and away from any objective analysis, that the gender relationship we ended up with and feminisists were so angered by has a lot to do with well meaning reforms. Maybe time rendered those reforms redundant but there was no male conspiracy in them.
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