In response

My wife read the previous post and asked that if the poem was the true worth of a man, what was the worth of a woman? I think that is a legitimate question, deserving an honest answer.
I would have to say that the worth of a woman is the same as a man. After all, is woman not man's counterpart, equal in every way, complimentary to his strengths and weaknesses? She is all that he cannot be, and yet is the same at the core. In any relationship, balance is of essence, and male and female must be balanced.
Many older religions based everything on the balances of nature. Male and female, fire and water, it was all about the Earth being in harmony, and us in harmony with it. For several thousand years now, there has been a loss of that balance, and our world has paid the price for that loss. Economies come and go, and the environment is shot.
The women's liberation movement of the seventies didn't really help much. Radical feminism just swung the balance the other way. The principle of regaining what had been lost was smothered by the rhetoric and slogans.
We will see a return to balance, as time goes on.
But the worth of a woman is the same as that of any man. It is family, honour and love of humanity. These are concepts most often associated with womankind. Without woman, there is no family. Without the honour of women, men have no use for it amongst themselves. Women have been the guardians of decency and love for humanity since the beginning of time. Those things are as much the definition of Her as of Him.