[18]           Despite all the evidence that women are better equipped for life, baby-boys have always been preferred to baby-girls, and still are. It’s a phenomenon that perpetuates itself: ever since ancient times, women, being physically weaker, were oppressed and considered to be men’s property, to be sold by their fathers to other men as soon as they were old enough to produce children. As such, it was the male child who took over his father’s enterprise and the one who carried his father’s name down history lane.