From the strictly biological point of view men are now and always have been the more expendable of the sexes. True for humans and true almost universally across the animal kingdom. Put simply 1 male and 24 females can produce 24 offspring in a year 24 males and 1 female would take a few years longer. Therefore, it makes perfect sense for male roles should be riskier and woman would be more sheltered. It would also make sense in times of surplus to want to build up your risk taking, expendable, population.
Now we live in a much more enlightened time. Such considerations are beneath our notice. As women move into the professional workforce either because they want to, or one because it just takes two salaries to support a family, or more frequently because she's the sole support for the family one marvels at this "progress".
As women become the majority enrollees at college the worth of a college degree sinks. This isn't a sexist observation it is just true no matter how you measure it. The financial value of a BA verses a trade school degree is on the way to inverting. College courses are getting softer and less relevant and outside the very elite schools grade inflation is rampant. Look to history and culture, In the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe where the Medical profession was predominantly a feminine pursuit the wages for an MD were the rough equivalent of a factory foreman.
Please understand, this isn’t a diatribe against women! It is supply and demand. If you start with an economic model where one salaried occupation supports a family then you double the required salary needed you need to double the number of workers and jobs. This would place downward pressure on salaries and in real terms salaries have dropped as the pool of the employable doubled.
As for the feminization of society, I suspect it’s a bit overstated. It isn’t a man’s world, it isn’t a woman’s world, it’s just the world we’re stuck with. We can bend it a bit and change our hopes and ideals but we should be honest with ourselves about the consequences. Cultures expand their influence with their population. There is only one culture that is presently shrinking in size. Western ‘Civilization’ may be the home of the modern feminist movement but the irony would border on poetic if feminism led to the undermining of the only culture that nurtured it.

affectionately
Mad Lews