Explain the conflict between the sexes in the Eumenides?

Zeus overthrew the older generations of gods, and among these ancient deities were the Furies. The Furies have been made outcasts. The deities are the embodiments of opposing forces: Apollo is a symbol for the male, the rational, the young, and the civilized. The Furies represent the female, the violent, the old, and the primal. Aeschylus captures a mythical moment in history, one in which the world was torn between a savage and archaic past and the bold new order of Greek civilization, the young Olympian gods, and rationality. The difficulty of the struggle between these two worlds is dramatized by the cycle of violence in the House of Atreus and the clash between Apollo and the Furies. The Oresteia is about the growing pains of a nascent civilization.