This is an excellent thread. So much insight into who people are and where they would fit into a greater scheme in a more primitive environment.
Kim, if I may, I'd like to share a little of how my people view your genders place in the whole of things. Firstly, the women have the most honored of all duties. They are the heart of the people and they shape the future of the people. They make the miracle of life inside of them and for that reason, they were gifted with traits of compassion, love, respect, honor, fairness, tenderness, etc., which are used to raise the children in a wholesome and beneficial way. Many times, men do not carry these on their sleeves as a woman does and many times it is the duty of a woman to bring those traits to bear when men are chattering about war or taking the people in a direction that isn't good for the people. They and they alone are responsible for the initial development of a childs heart and are the ones that teach the children how to live with nature and among the people. They were also responsible for the development of the childs spiritual values. Of course, by gender the children would grow towards womanhood and manhood and would learn those skills necessary to their gender. Something that is sadly lacking in today's modern societies.
Also, I tend to agree that technology is the bane of our existence. It is the evil that creates and destroys, all at the same time.
We as a race have lost our way and in my eyes and there are two things that will put things right, one way or another. The first is that we as a species have a change of heart and return to the ways of Nature. Abandoning destructive technologies and allowing things to return to how they were always meant to be. A lowering of populations, cleaning up of the environment, etc. The other is out of our hands and something we prefer not to acknowledge and something that scares the heck out of us when it is brought up. That of course being GODs intervention or whatever you care to consider as massive natural disasters or species ending war that will destroy all of mans great works and if man survived, would be cast back into the stone age. The Earth would eventually heal herself, but whether man is part of that future, lies within our hearts, not our science.