Maybe, but then again look at IRL Athens. Their patron God was a Goddess of War, Strategy and Wisdom yet they were incredibly misogynistic.
Not sure the comparison holds well at all. Firstly: almost our source material of ancient Athens (beyond epigraphical and archaeological evidence) are sources written by the elite of the elite who are pretty universally male. Now, I'm not going to deny the fact that the societal structure wasn't intensely misogynistic (along with the fact that you weren't a person who had any say in the 'democratic process' if you were poor, foreign, a slave, etc etc) but we must remember that this completely ignores the women of lower classes and the fact that yes, there might be gender
roles but they'd be doing just as much work as the men because that's how things worked then. Clothes, for example, were frequently the job of women to make and those took
immense amounts of effort to create.
But moving beyond that. That is Ancient Athens. Estalia and Tilea aren't really comparable. They have a better tech level and more sophisticated social organisation - as a society it's better to compare them to an early modern polity (depending, a little, on when we vote as our start date). But even beyond that, by old WHF standards we actually find a surprising number of women in positions of power (and more modern publications like WHFRP 4e make it abundantly clear that women and men can acheive the same things in the Southern Realms). But even leaving that aside and keeping to older lore, you have La Aguila Ultima (basically Myrmidian Pope) being a woman, you have women ruling city states, being some of the most powerful wielders of soft and hard power in the region, powerful mages, entire groups of women in traditionally masculine roles (like the military) etc etc.
tl;dr a) Ancient Athens was a
little more complicated than that irl since we generally only get sources from the male ultra elite of their society or the male ultra elite of nearby societies; b) I don't think it's a good analogy given the differences between ancient Athens and the Southern Realm polities; c) it's more established now but even in older lore you had plenty of women (by the standards of WHF at least) in the Southern Realms known for kicking ass and taking names (in various ways).
Edits done for typos.
