Millions? No, more like 150k - 200k years as Homo Sapiens.
In a ‘civilization’? Sumer, located in Mesopotamia, is the first known civilization, 6K years ago.
Any only in the last maybe 40 - 50 years has there been any real progress for women as leaders in western culture. Still in most of the world (Islam, China, Africa,) women are still subjugated by men.
It’s really only dumb luck we haven’t nuked ourselves out of existence since ww2.
Humans are still the savages we were 100k years ago, we just have technology now.
The only hope and the future of humanity is to merge with AI. Once AI can process at 1millon x a humans capacity, we merge with it and evolve to a Techno Sapien.
That’s the only path forward. We won’t evolve in time ‘naturally’ to fix our problems before we do end up destroying ourselves.