As I told someone else somewhere else, to be fair, the ones at the top with the money would probably like to find a way to keep most men down and out of competition's way (and free or cheap labor) too. It's just that by controlling reproductive choices, they've got an easy way to keep women impoverished and the worker replacement rate high - if they could figure out something to do to men that wouldn't also legally apply to them, I'm sure it'd be enacted (or tried).