It was made to look that way to protect the women. As long as it seems that men are in charge, the women are safe from getting killed in wars, and thus survival of the species is assured as women can produce more men. Man was the thug risking it all protecting them throughout history. Men were the slaves doing the most physical endurance work.

Men will continue to be the servant in the near future, we can see it with the new laws, the increasingly authoritarian regimes.