Explain Why Women Were Greatly Accused Of Witchcraft

My journal entry will be about the women in history as a whole. I think the men feared woman who had any inclinations of having power because then they wouldn't be able to perceive themselves as greater beings. Everyone wanted to rise to power but within the house hold they wanted to be king, when they couldn't be in society. So to make women the lesser meant they wouldn't have to struggle for power with another adult at home. Which is why I believe that the reason women were more greatly accused of witchcraft is because there was no other way for a woman at that time to be able to come to power or independence without outside help. Most women who were executed were older, outspoken, economically independent, or estranged from the “norm”. So