Why can the lawmaking process be so time-consuming?

It is majority wins. When making a law you need to make everyone or 80% ish of the people happy. When the law is biased people are going to reject it and thus making it was a waste of time or people can ignore the law and have distrust in the government. So the law has to make people happy.

The answer is both male and females act in movies in plays (back then males played both male and female characters)