Historically, throughout our evolution, a man's ability to provide resources & protection was his most valuable "asset" to women. Resources are limited, and difficult to acquire -- even more so for women. Low supply of resources drives up their value to women.
So, just like any rational female will look for a dad with Beta (who will provision, not run), any rational male will look for a woman with Beta (who will care, not abandon). Your posited weird dynamic where women need providing men but men don't need caring women is just wrong.
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Your mistake is assuming that men and women are equals -- are carbon copies of each other. They are not. You base everything on the false premise that "men and women are functional equals."
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Men and women contribute different things to evolutionary fitness, but they both contribute. And it is men whose ongoing contribution is less essential - far easier to have 1000 great-grandchildren with an absent dad (Genghis Khan?) than an absent mom.
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