Yea like the brother never inherited the family business, and the brother was sold off to a rich older lady to marry, or the brother for goes university in place of his sister, the brother having a bastard child meant he was ostracized from the family and sent to a Catholic nunnery to learn the ways of god.

Women have historically been repressed through out many culture in history and even to present wealth be damned.

Yes, but women get treated worse.