Patriarchal inheritance creates an incentive to seclude and oppress women in a way that matrilinial inheritance does not. You get stuck in this patrilinial psor patriarchal trap, as you said. And then once you're in that trap, there's a fly wheel. All the incentives compound upon each other; we end up just sort of always tilting towards that patriarchal model everywhere throughout history,. Did i get it mostly right? Cause that does i'm like, ok, i feel like i understand that now. Ok. Atam, atam, i want to say two things before we rike. One, absolutely spott on, bravo. Oh,
Around the world and for most of history, human societies have been dominated by men. Why? Professor and author of the forthcoming “The Great Gender Divergence”, Dr. Alice Evans, joins Adam to explain how male governance springs from systems of inheritance, why matrilineal systems tend to convert to patrilineal ones, and why we’re seeing progress on gender equality around the world. You can follow Alice's work on Twitter at @_alice_evans
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