How did gynocentric culture come about? | HBR Talk 305

Last week we discussed how biologically different women were from women today in ancient times when we didn’t have the luxury of tools to do all of our hard manual labor around the home. We learned that physical evidence in the bones of men and women indicated that historically, women’s arms endured much more mechanical loading than women of today, and the average woman likely had arms stronger than today’s female athletes. We learned that there while it was far from universal, there was evidence that both hunting and gathering in ancient civilizations were cooperative labor done by both sexes together, playing different but still physically demanding roles. Comments I’ve had since have convinced me that we need to discuss some of the evolution of gynocentrism before we go further into the history of changes to suffrage.