As to why women are trusted more than men... anthropology might suggest this much: Men are the hunters of the pack. We are not the hearth. Society feels that we are out of our element when performing the role that the other side "maintains." We're too rough and violent, too competitive and impatient to providing the "nurturing environment" modern children require.
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Keep in mind: sex and gender are different things but not in this article.
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Originally Posted by Wikipseudofactpedia
Gender roles have long been a staple of the "nature versus nurture" debate. Traditional theories of gender usually assume that one's gender identity, and also one's gender role, is a natural given. For example, it is often claimed in Western and other societies that women are naturally more fit to look after children. The idea that differences in gender roles originate in differences in biology has found support in parts of the scientific community. 19th-century anthropology sometimes used descriptions of the imagined life of paleolithic hunter-gatherer societies for evolutionary explanations for gender differences. For example, those accounts maintain that the need to take care of offspring may have limited the females' freedom to hunt and assume positions of power.
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Not exactly what I was looking for, but it'll do.
Women "make" the babies. We assume that this makes them good at taking care of them.