The Matrilennial System

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Why is it that once you're locked into a patrilinial system, women can't bust out of that? I think it's because i was saying before that, well, o cas, this comes back to your point about biology. Within a matrilennial system, women don't really cloister men. We don't know. In a matrilenial system inambia, they don't put men in a box,. or men the high wall a vail and so on. So there are mechanisms within the kinship system that kind of suppress the emegence of patri.

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.