There is this enormous heterogeneity in how male kin, patrilennial clans seclude women. Its foot binding in china, its veils and walls in the middle east. It's all kinds of things. Its female genalrelation. So it's manifest in many different ways. But when i study the ob history of gendaine and look at every single society, i see these same things happening. With more wealth, stratification, there's more concern for female chastity to insure purity,. et cetera. Ye, there its exactly the same thing happening time and time again. And there's there is a fundamental asymmetry here.
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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