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It wasn't' the same everywhere, and it varied in intensity. Women had equal rights in Egypt, or at least it looks that way, and judging from the frescoes in Crete, women were quite free. Male dominance in Athens was extreme, but in Sparta women were scandalously free.
Among primates (and we are primates), male dominance is very typical, and it certainly is in the closest primate species to us, namely chimps. With chimps it seems to be might makes right, and as male chimps are bigger and stronger and more ferocious than the females, they dominate. Probably in human societies too males dominate because they are more willing to use violence.