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A female friend of mine and I recently talked about the treatment of women in history, and if OTL can be considered misogynous or not. Women have simply not been in a good seat for most of our history. Is this more or less inevitable or just likely in a society that moves beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, or could the world have been a nicer place for women with the right POD? Now, knowing the greater probability distribution of all possible universes is probably beyond even the knowledgeable members of this forum, so instead I would like you to think about the following questions:

a) What POD do you think would result in the most misogynous modern-day world?

b) What POD do you think would result in the least misogynous modern-day world?

Bonus points if the POD is after the development of civilization as we know it, so no convenient matriarchy just popping out of nowhere. For the first POD, I think the Assyrians are a good place to start. They practically invented the concept of misogyny, their laws treating women very differently from men. They also invented the idea that women should wear veils. (At least married women. Prostitutes and servants were punished if they did wear veils.)
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