Ignoring the Subjugated 50%, As Usual

How equality slipped away: For 97 per cent of human history, all people had about the same power and access to goods. How did inequality ratchet up?

All people includes women and children. When exactly have women and children ever had "about the same power and access to goods"?

Certainly not during written history.

https://aeon.co/essays/for-97-of-human-history-equality-was-the-norm-what-happened .