Women's lives are more valuable in what way? They can produce more MEN, that's how they are valuable. The greatest thinkers, producers, fighters, protectors, lovers, and any other positive plural verb are all MEN. A one-on-one look at an ordinary male vs an ordinary female, man wins every time. No matter what the contest is, as long as it is practical. Hell, the best chefs are male. I bet a male can clean a fvcking house faster too, if he wanted to.
Women are valuable in the sexual market (50 men and 100 women can produce 100 pregnancies while 100 men and 50 women can produce only 50 pregnancies) . That's it. They can reproduce. The fact is though, without both sexes, reproduction wouldn't take place. Therefore more value needs to get placed on the sex that provides the most benefit while ALIVE. Men do that, plain and simple.