Oh, lets agree to disagree then dude, I honestly couldn't be arsed arguing the point. Bear in mind however, most surviving history was written by men living in a heavily Patriachal system that wanted to relegate females to nothing more than breeding machines, and the easiest way to do that is to write them out of history.
It's even easier to subjugate them at the "point of sale", i.e. in everyday life; the "right here, right now" mentality. The accomplishments of women weren't written out of history, they were prevented from ever happening to begin with. The fact that a few hundred Spartan women might have had the ability to "vote" in village elections is hardly representative of women in toto the world over during that millennium (or any millennium for that matter).
As for being "breeding machines", yes, that was a tool to keep them subjugated. Women have always had methods of birth control since the dawn of civilization but it isn't until very recently (20th Century) that women had access to easy, cheap, convenient birth control. (I'm not talking about abortion, I'm talking about 'The Pill' here.) Most importantly reproductive
information readily available to women is a very recent phenom.
Plus we have to weigh affluence and standards of living and all that stuff (the middle-class and even poor women in Western society today live light years ahead of their female ancestors in terms of health care and rights). I'm trying not to look at this only thru a 21st Century lens. Life has been brutal for everyone for millennium, not just for women. Hence my point that recent (the past 50 to 100 years) is really the period that women were finally able to throw off the shackles of patriarchal oppression. (My lesbian friend Gloria would be so happy with me right now -- she loves that term -- 'Patriarchal oppression'. I think it would make a good name for a punk band, don't you?)