Would you agree that women are, anatomically speaking, weaker than men?

[Lizzie Poppet]

153. For most of human history, women HAVE been "weaker" in that sense.

Physical conflict depended very heavily (although far from exclusively) on physical strength, and men have a significant advantage in that area. It has been only recently (relatively speaking) that technological "force multipliers" have been available to negate that advantage. I consider myself very much a "healthy, able-bodied, adult woman" (although I'm rather small, I'm a very avid cyclist...I'm in shape), but I'd stand virtually no chance against the vast majority of men in a physical fight without access to such a force multiplier. In that sense, having a greater capacity for such things than a child or an elderly person would be irrelevant, as it still wouldn't be enough to make any difference in the outcome.

Unfortunately, that undeniable physical difference between the genders played a huge part in establishing male dominance of human society for millenia. As we've moved gradually out of the brute force age, that dominance has (not coincidentally) lessened.