The reason females are held to a higher standard is because they carry the weight of responsibility in pregnancy.
Doesn't matter how much people as whole want to try and delude themselves and others out of selfish reasons and lack of discipline to the point they're almost animals driven by primal instinct and pleasure... that sex isn't a big deal, it's my body i can do what i want, everyone does it, etc, etc, etc...
The fact remains sex is mainly a function of bringing life into the world and child birth is one of the most important responsibilities of humankind. Fairly or unfairly women got the majority share of responsibility in this as they carry child within and the child is born through them.
It's not all about the selfish individual and their need for pleasure. This act brings life into the world. Using "protection" only goes so far until it doesn't work that one time.
The male should have just as much responsibility post birth and looking at it from that perspective but it's just not the case with a lot of men. They can easily cut and run and leave any accountability and responsibility they have whereas a woman simply doesn't have that same path available to them. No matter what she chooses it's going to be a difficult path.
It's one of the main problems with the world today and so many children are forced into this world through the selfish act of others and they then are brought into environments and situations that aren't beneficial to them and they don't grow up stable and then everyone turns around and blames the kids as they grow and question how this all happened. Ummm. It's easy to see why the world is the way it is, why humanity is the way it is.
So... yeah. It's not all about the inidvidual and their animalistic desires to have sex. Unfortunately and perhaps unfairly a lot of men take advantage of this and the burden falls more on women to take the higher ground of responsibility and discipline. Find men who are not like that and wait for the right time to have sex when the chance to bring a child into the world is a stable and right timing choice. Just because some irresponsible and immature males do it doesn't mean everyone else should be doing. These guys need someone else willing to do it with them in the first place. So, by that logic if female took a stand then the males would have no choice but to follow and so the women do have a lot of power and influence in the matter, unless the male takes things by force and there remains no choice. I mean really, there's so much power females have in these matters that a lot of women aren't even aware of and don't realize/understand. They could control and influence the standards of where the future goes. Instead they simply allow these immature, irresponsible men dictate and control the future because they're "cute" or have confidence, or whatever the reason.
Everyone's just going to continue selfishly f*cking their way through the world anyway, doesn't matter what i say...and the world/humanity will continue it's doomed path to devolution and destruction.