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Originally Posted by Joker_in_the_Pack
Actually, women are not lower in status than men in hunter-gatherer societies. In fact, women are seen as equal. Hunting does not bring food with the regularity that gathering does. Since gathering is done by women, it makes them quite important. Agricultural life and Cattle Herding societies are the ones that create such a rigid patriarchy.
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Which ones are we talking about? Quite a few have rigid patriarchy in that while women are important they still might not be seen as completely equal, and most if not all at least have prescribed gender roles, which is sexist in itself (you can't have "separate but equal").