It is difficult to say without context but in reference to laws and regulations it means that women get a much smaller amount of something like property, shares in a business, and money, or that women are of lesser value than men in some other way, such as right of representation in a government. For example, if a brother and a sister inherit money from their parents, the sister (i.e. the women ) would not get as much as the brother (the man). So if the women inherits $1,000 , the man would inherit two and a half times that amount , which would be $ 2,500.