Why are there more patriarchies in human history than matriarchies?
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One of the main reasons is capability of the two genders. Some scientists followed a few African tribes that lived in the hunter/gather lifestyle for a year. They found the individual mans effort of hunting and limited farming resulted in a caloric surplus between 5 to 7 people. Women’s efforts was caloricaly neutral or slightly negative. Children are all negative until the boys are 10 to 12.
In other words, when life is hard male toil and work is worth considerably more than female. Women on their own and with children face starvation.
This is just one factor and doesn’t take into consideration protection of the community which the men did as well.
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