10/19/15
Professor Rio
Chapter 6
Gender parity has been a known issue for centuries. Men and women being equal is no question in the past and today, they are not equal. Everything in society is more masculine than feminine. With that said men depend a lot on women and have for years. Different creation stories have varied on how gender parity plays a role. Nancy Tanner drew conclusions from studies of social organization observed in chimpanzees. The main social tie is women and their children. The mother was the one who gave birth and provided milk for the baby from her own body. The adolescent males tend to go off and gather food for themselves and maybe their other siblings. Margaret Ehrenberg saw females as the mother