The value of a man

Why is it that people generally value men more than women?? Without women where are men be??? Where would we be?? It always amazed me reading stories and seeing on TV shows and movies about the Japanese or Chinese or some people that would throw away little girls, or about men that would get upset with women when they didn't bear male children. Not only is it stupid because men are genetically the ones that decide the sex of the child, but beating your wife or switching from woman to woman isn't going to change much. The point of all this is...how did we get to the point where women and men are unequal in the first place? Yes, the Lord did take a rib from Adam to form Eve, but does this make her a lesser person? Or is it because she convinced Adam to eat fruit they shouldn't have that no one trusts women? Or, perhaps they were seen as a little bit lesser when they began to reproduce. Reproduction is not an easy process to go through, so maybe men got used to working while women were going through this. Still, this is no reason to assume women are weaker, to go through something like that should make them stronger than others. I guess stereotypes were generated from ways of life that just happened to be created naturally from the way men and women behave. Once again, feminism, which should only be the fact that one is a female, became to mean so much more and to incorporate characteristics that vary from person to person. Also, creating a model of the typical female for other females to adjust themselves to.