Meanwhile, girls would become wives and mothers and were deserving of softer treatment.

Part of it was turning males into warriors (it was explained to us almost as a rite of passage, iirc, since now we were big lads and attitudes to us would become harsher), and the other part patronising females. Not taking them seriously, since the most they might be expected to do in the way of a profession was teach.

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind