Yes, women were frequently the brewers, at least for the stuff drank at home, but to say men didn’t drink beer until 200 years ago is really bad writing...maybe they meant that staring about 200 years ago, beer became seen as a more masculine beverage....There’s huge amounts of history that men drank the stuff all over the beer-drinking parts of the world...(and evidence that at least some of the time, men were professional brewers).
I hate twisted revisionist history...
I was looking into a whole different thing about Greek times.
I dont know IIRC but I thought I read beer was considered ack for the Wealthy Men who drank wine.
It was the slaves who brewed and drank brews.