Is the man-dominated society fearful of women?

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question: We come from a society that is patriarchal in nature, everything revolves around a man and there is a general subjugation of a woman in the sense that the laws, the rules, and regulations around whatever woman can do, not do; things like that. My question is that, is there a general fear of…