premise: I know of none who literally proposes that , but a number of feminists have used the fact that women 's names appear second as a means of illuminating the embodiment of a centuries-long worldview . 
hypothesis: While that has not been literally proposed ( as far as I know ) , the fact that the men 's names appear first has been used by some feminists to illustrate the manifestation of an attitude that women have had to put up with all these centuries .