If you wanted to take a stab at that sort of argument, make it along the lines of men being disposable gender: hard manual work with high risk of death, lower life expectancy, women and children first, if you're not making serious money you are a failure etc.

Historically, virtually all women passed on their genes, but 60 % of men did not. (Numbers approximate)

At the same time the whole reason women had gold jewlery was because they weren't allowed to have money, so take it as you will