In Sophocles' The Oedipus Cycle what are some examples that show that a woman's role is to help men get further in life?

First,
although ' plays about Thebes are on related subjects, they are not actually a cycle; they were
not written as a trilogy nor were they intended by Sophocles to be performed together.

Next, the notion of a woman's role being "to help men get further in life"
is phrased in a way that is somewhat anachronistic. In ancient Greece, the spheres of men and
women were completely separate. Women were not involved in politics nor...