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Re:Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015) by WalterBright on Thursday August 04, 2016 @10:46PM (#12229758)
> agriculture led to many inequalities

Given the starkly different physical strengths between the genders, it's hard to believe that gender roles did not exist before agriculture.

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Re:Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015) by fdej on Thursday August 04, 2016 @11:35PM (#12229895)
Pre-agricultural societies certainly had a clear division of labor between the genders, but could still have had a high degree of equality in the sense that both women and men had roughly equal power in the communal decision-making.
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