Gender Gap Genesis

It all began long back. An apple tree,  a woman plucks the forbidden fruit, but then she could not eat it alone. Maybe all she wanted to was share it. But you learn to accept it as Crime needs company. So she looks for the weakest mind around, Adam qualifies, chomps away and the explanation (marginalizing the male identity of the serpent who  leads the woman to a 'crime') is naively accepted that a man ate an apple because a woman tempted him to. Then you read Jack and Jill,  and understand that if Jack falls, Jill must tumble after. If you manage to read the original version of the rhyme, you realize that nobody bothers if Jill rose again but then: 

"Up got Jack, and home did trot
As fast as he could caper
There his mother bound his head
With vinegar and brown paper".
You learn to hum
"The king was in his counting house counting out his money,
The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey
The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes".

You never ask why Little Girls are made of "Sugar and spice" while Little boys of "Snips and snails"

You just accept "Polly puts the Kettle on" and "Jack builds a house". You don't question why Little Miss Muffet eating curds needs to be "frightened " by a spider  while Little Jack Horner can stick his thumb, pull out a plum and still claim "What a good boy am I!"

And parroting rhymes you end up reading  relaxation and exemption beside other handicapped and deprived categories. A deprivation less biological than cultural.