August 2019
Women?s Uneven Progress Globally
The treatment of women from the beginning of our species has been shaped by biology: female humans generally smaller than males, physically weaker, and hampered by childbirth and lactation. Even hunter-gatherer tribes, whose survival depended upon mobility, learned to space between births. A woman on the move can carry only one or two children.
After agriculture replaced hunting/gathering, when humans settled in villages, towns, and city-states, spacing childbirth more...