The History of Gendered Roles

The idea of gendered roles and a particular way of organising society around gender emerged very very slowly over thousands of years. The United States founding fathers borrowed from what they had seen in other societies including the Haudenosaunee in Native American societies to radically imagine how different society might look for proof that actually what was always imagined to be natural was not really natural at all. We have this Flintstones model of the past in our head in which Wilmer stays at home and takes care of the kids and does the housework and Fred goes out and does the hunting and killing. In this imaginative scenario that we've created that there is a palpable difference between the sexes that goes right back into the