I remember my step mother treated me as more important because I was a teenage boy. My step mother was an intellectual feminist and active union representative in her job and prided herself on her modern views. She would automatically offer to do my washing but not my sisters who was expected to do it herself. My sister brought this up and I ended up having to do my own washing.
My uncle, a kind of father figure, use to talk about my sisters as if all they needed to do was settle down and have kids whereas I was expected to be successful and make money. Also when it came to inheritance it was assumed that I would inherit the money myself to be responsible for the other female members. This was in the 1970s and he has changed his attitude now.c