Biological constraints and socioecological influences on women's pursuit of risk and the sexual division of labour

Evolutionary treatments of women's work and the sexual division of labour derive from sexual selection theory and focus on an observed cross-cultural trend: tasks performed by women tend to be more compatible with childcare and produce less economic risk than tasks performed by men. Evolutionar...

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Main Authors: Kathrine E. Starkweather, Mary K. Shenk, Richard McElreath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2020-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Human Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2513843X20000602/type/journal_article