What Does It Mean for Women?

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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.

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.