@Frank Apisa,
Of course you have a mythology, Frank (as do I and as does everyone living within a culture). You are fooling yourself if you think otherwise. When you said "women have almost always gotten the short end of the stick", it is a perfect example.
Let's look at your beliefs as they are apparent in your posts on this thread. These are my guesses, please correct me if any of these aren't actually what you believe.
1) You believe that men and woman should be equal (by a modern Western definition of the word equality).
2) You believe that men and women have never been equal (by a modern Western definition of the word equality).
3) You believe that our current ideas about equality are superior to the ideas held by past cultures (or by other contemporary cultures).
None of these beliefs are objective, and none are any universal logic. These are just things you choose to believe.