That nonsense started with the onset of the patriarchal age (which is about all our recorded history knows about).

So if there's no record of it, how can we tell it started then?

My understanding is that cultures around the world vary in a much more complicated way that is implied in terms like "the patriarchal age". There's enormous variance in these kinds of things between cultures which in quite a lot of other ways would appear very comparable.

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Interesting that in English there doesn't appear to be any female equivalent of "uxorious". And the other odd thing about that word is that it seems generally to be used with a slightly pejorative tone.