It seems that something changed at the beginning of the 18th century vis a vis the notion that women were sexually rapacious. This makes sense when you look at earlier literature that features Moll Flanders, The Wife of Bath etc, and also puts the medieval monastic experience for men in a different light.
The idea that women were the drivers for civilisation is a notion I've not seen anywhere else, so I suppose you could say it's my personal pondering.
It comes from a variety of bits of data. I've always wondered how, as a female, you cope with menstruation, gestation, lactation and child rearing while nomadic. When you look at tribal behaviour, there is a pattern of temporary residency for the seasons and I just wonder whether that is specifically to deal with that dynamic.
Then there's other things, like historical reports of pre-Roman British behaviour whereby small groups of men (between eight and twelve with two or three women) operate as a mobile hunting unit. Then there's the connection between wandering, movement across the land in a solitary/small group paradigm and the male experience: the Aboriginal walkabout is a good example here.
And when you factor in the selection of upper body strength, muscle mass, body density in males, it all points to selection for hunting and movement across land. Civilisation prevents this; it's static. And I do wonder whether it creates an anxiety in males that is only partially recognised. You could argue that they are in cages in some respects, that civilisation is a cage for the male because it prevents them from doing what they are selected to do in an evolutionary sense.
Fatherhood is another interesting one because it's another area where understandings have changed over time. My feeling that fatherhood tied to the notion of bloodline is a Roman phenomenon because of the paterfamilias system where fatherhood denotes personal financial, political and social responsibility for a dependent. And, of course, that again is tied to geographic settlement, civilisation and rights over land.
There's a lot to unpick and I may be utterly wrong, but you have to ask who benefits from settlement, and my feeling is that it is women.