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7.1. Material Conditions: Why You Can’t Eliminate Sexism Just by Eliminating Sexism

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Ajob, and the Disruption of Patra Locality

In china, in order to solve the skewed birth ratio and the oppression of women, anthropologists have been proposing various material base solutions for several decades now. If you want to solve deeply entrenched cultural issues like patriarchy and raceism, you need to deal with the practical conditions that generate those issues or else you're not going anywhere. We saw earlier that it takes natural disasters and mass social comflex scale events to disrupt it enough to make a difference. Other proposed solutions include implementing a social security system for rural chinese which would allow families with only daughters to be able to have support in old age.

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