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#764 Alessandra Cassar: Female Competitiveness, Cooperative Breeding, and Market Development

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Why Women Don't Compete?

If there are objective gain to entering and competing, why women don't do it? Especially if you do it in a game which is nothing more than a game with math numbers. "For men they have 200 times, they can slip around with everyone and have 200 offspring or even more," says evolutionary psychology's Sarah Hardy. If high status is so valuable to women, why don't we observe women competing even more than men?, asks the author.

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