Sexual selection theory has provided the only coherent, non-circular account of gender roles in culture. It gives a parsimonious explanation for gender-based cultural dimorphism, that most economic behavior is mating effort by males to acquire material resources for attracting and provisioning females. Most cultural behavior is male mating effort to broadcast courtship displays to multiple female recipients. Since females have a lower reproductive ceiling than males, the mating benefits of public cultural displays are larger for males. This argument would also help explain a gender bias in the amount of recognition individuals receive for their works.
Men also produce about a magnitude more of violent death than females.
Throughout evolutionary history, men have often gained reproductively through warring behavior, while women almost never seem to do so. Men can make enormous direct reproductive gains through access to power, status, and great amounts of resources. It is no mere coincidence that the majority of the gods of war are male.