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Why Do Men Rule the World? with Dr. Alice Evans

Factually! with Adam Conover

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What Does It Mean for Women?

In Africa, wealthy men now have multiple polyganous co wives. What do you think it does to a woman's bargaining power within a marriage if she is competing against a bunch of other women? That bargaining power is going to go down. On top of that, suppose i'm in an unhappy marriage. How do you thenk my parents would feel about me divorcing? Remember that they've just accepted a largeid price for hi going into that marriage. Yether like, "We can't give him store credit" No, e, exactly. So that is an example of how wealth strated.

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