Ann, I am not sure exactly what you mean by saying women have a lower accountability threshold.
Women that get pregnant are held accountable for having unprotected sex. 
Women who carry a baby to full term are held accountable for the safety and health care of the baby even if there is a father in the picture. 
Society holds women accountable for being raped by saying the woman should not have been dressed the way she was or that she should not have been out late at night walking alone. Sometimes they say the woman deserved what she got because she was incapacitated. Women who are beaten are held accountable too. By society and by the system. She should just "leave" him. She should keep her mouth shut. Be a "good" wife.
Women are held accountable for being single parents by society and the system. It comes in the form of lower wages, lack of affordable housing and lack of safe childcare.
Yes, women in Alaska have strong survival instincts, they have to.