
Status: Why Is it Everywhere? Professor Celia Ridgeway
ROCKING OUR PRIORS
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The Importance of Emotional Ties in the Household
We value people or we give them status when we perceive them as contributing to our group. In medieval England women worked alongside their husbands and husbands respected and understood the importance of women's contributions. Families themselves might be supportive of female employment because they're getting the money from it. When women goes to work it's helping the house buy a nicer car buy a nicer house contributors who's always families getting those economic rewards.
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