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> the problem is that we are raising our boys to want to be leaders and our girls to not. What you think initially caused that behavior in the first place, som
by cutemonster 6y ago
> the problem is that we are raising our boys to want to be leaders and our girls to not.
What you think initially caused that behavior in the first place, some time long ago?
- RestlessMind 6y agoI remember reading about this in "Sapiens". Suppose there were indeed women leaders many thousands of years back. Due to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, they would not have had any opportunity to both bear a child for a couple of years at least (9 months of pregnancy, breast feeding afterwards) and be a leader at the same time. Add to that the high rate of infant mortality and you have vastly diminishing chances of a leader-woman passing her genes to baby girls. Now compound this over thousands of generations and you will have the society of early-20th century, before infant mortality rates started going down and societies started becoming wealthier that a leader-woman has to invest only a few months at most for a child by outsourcing most of the "gatherer" duties.
- cutemonster 6y agoI've been thinking a bit along the same lines Sounds like an interesting book, thanks for mentioning