A very broad topic indeed. So much to discuss and here is my tuppence. Men have subjugated women for so much of history, it is actually only a recent phenomenon that women have begun to be free and even then within limits even amongst 'enlightened' western democracies.
If men still believe that they are a superior gender then they are indeed idiots and fit for the scrapheap. Certainly some women try to be like men in a bad way too eg loud and drunk and promiscuous, and like men some can handle and some cannot.
Its the 21st century folks we're free to be ourselves and that includes the freedom to be smart or stupid, which is still better than it used to be IMNSVHO.
But back to your proposal about chauvanism hamsterboy, I think that is true, but it is not the fault of women, merely a sign of weakness and arrogance amongst some (actually quite a considerable few) men that leads to the manifestation of said.