You're incorrect and being overly simplistic. Women have always engaged in manual labor.

They've ploughed too. If you just want to be up front about it, the horses prefer being led by us anyway because, in general, we're not so heavy handes on the bit kind of like, in general, it's men who tend to have a lead foot on a gas pedal.

This is like the "men were hunters" myth. You've stripped one small facet of a much broader truth into a myth that elevates men over women to stroke your own egos.

Prehistoric women hunted too. Even large game. They hunted less when they had small children or had had a difficult birth. Women actually contributes more calories to the tribe than men did. So this barratuve that women would have starved without big strong men to feed them is and always has been bullshit.

The same thing applies to the plough. Women ploughed. They did hard and heavy manual labor. They did less when pregnant, with small children, and if a difficult birth had left them somewhat disabled.

They made clothes that keptnmen from freezing to death. They preserves foid that kept men from starving to death. They grew herbs and kept apothecaries that treated men and livestock when sick and literally saved their lives. When paid work became available and men had to leave for extended times, women literally ran the whole farm by themselves, doing whatever needed to be done no matter what it was. Even ploughing.

You speak as though you have expertise, when really all you have is a stylized version of events you got an old B Western.

Show women some fucking respect.