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Originally Posted by Frownland
So you're saying that gender roles were constructed by societal norms? A social construct, if you will?
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Yeah I guess it's basically a social construct but unlike race it serves a basic purpose and arose based on pragmatic biological constraints.
The idea of gender is basically just an aggregate of personality traits associated with the two sexes. Sex isn't a social construct and the reason those traits have become associated with a given sex is largely explained by the divergent strategies females and males employ to attract a mate.
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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
I thought the whole village helped the mother raise children in Hunter gatherer tribes rather than the modern two parent model.
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generally speaking the women would take on that part of the work where men were more likely to hunt or do other dangerous work like that
The nuclear family is a modern adaptation of the same basic division of labor.