Why Can't Women Bust Out of the System?

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If men are the ones roaming around, running businesses, because they're not secluded, then they can make the laws of the land. So if we take any r abrahamic a religion, all the urasian religions, whetheri hinduism, anity islam, they all have these ideas of let's cloistter women, women,. et cetera, et ceterA. A woman who had said something to a man which she should not have said must have her teeth smashed with burnt bricks. Ah yove burnt bricks. Yes. A womanWho is adulteres should be dunked in the river and drowned. Now, we also sow. Ye

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.