Nearly every major culture on Earth (with the exception of judiasm and I may be wrong about that) is patrilinial as a fathers birth tended to determine the kids status.
Its tradition and its a deep rooted one. There is no need to change it and saying that it makes women “chattel” seems to show a few insecurities on your part.
When I get married and have children of my own they will be “douls” to show that I’m their father. The woman gives birth the least you women can do is acknowledge we sired the younglings.
AND my children will be given as much as I can possibly give them to know 'both' sides of their ancestry... GOOD grief, I am the insecure one here????
“Nearly every major culture on Earth (with the exception of judiasm and I may be wrong about that) is patrilinial as a fathers birth tended to determine the kids status.”
Orthodox Judaism is patrilineal. Conservative and Reform, not so much.
I’m pretty sure that when it comes to Judaism, the mother is what determines whether you are considered “a Jew” or not, but lineages and tribal membership were still reckoned by paternal descent.