“Any port in a storm???”
Looks more like homo sapiens were slaves, if anything. The Neaderthal (including females) were markedly bigger and probably smarter (larger brain) than us.
And slave masters use female slaves as they will.
Oh, like the female neanderthal slave keepers couldn’t “persuade” their male homo sapien sapiens to service them.
Stick and stone may break my bones...
...but whips and chains excite me!
Or, the reverse.
After all, the supposedly less strong and intelligent sapiens wiped out Neandertaliensis, not the other way around. There had to have been some occasions in which the males were killed but the females were still alive.