You haven’t explained this at all.
If you look at a history of women’s oppression it is thought by most scholars to occur at the time of the invention of agriculture. And it wasn’t a grand plan by men to do it either. It happened slowly over thousands of years as women because of how a division of labour came about - women due to their childbearing biology were “naturally” the ones to stay home, raise the kids, and tend the home. Men were able to spend more time tilling the land and growing crops. Not that all women bore children and none tilled the land but ON AVERAGE there was a division of labour. Men ON AVERAGE did the work which produced “surplus” which became the foundation for trade and capitalism as we know it. Hundreds or thousands of years down the line different groups made post hoc rationalisation for why men were richer and more powerful than women as a group, why men traditionally tilled the land and women traditionally tended the house. Because they didn’t know the real history they created myths such as that God created a division of the sexes and made one inherently superior. Some made laws the entrench their power to keep down the “outlier” women who didn’t fit their neat theory.
Over thousands of years this evolved through a series of post hoc rationalisations for patterns that already existed in society, and selfish attempts to keep wealth to themselves, patriarchy evolved.
Notice that at the beginning though there really was a biological reason why women and men did ON AVERAGE different things.
Even in egalitarian hunter gatherer societies where women and men’s work was fairly equally valued, women tended to gather plants for food while men tended to hunt. The reason for that was biological — women stayed near the camp if they had kids, and their precious status as bearers of life were protected while the more biologically expendable men could risk their lives hunting. Again NOT ALL but enough to be on average.
My point is before patriarchy existed, womanhood existed. People knew the difference between men and women. Because humans are animals and animals have sex differences ON AVERAGE so they can mate and the species can continue.
There is even evidence that some prehistoric human societies worshipped mother goddesses and revered women as sacred. Again, the concept of womanhood clearly existed, based in biology, but without patriarchy.
So no, womanhood isn’t an invented concept by patriarchy. Or capitalism.
And the solution to sexism is not “war” with men. We do not win if one side loses. That’s the wrong language entirely.
