Where there is or has been plough agriculture, the effects are deep and wide-ranging: these societies have markedly lower levels of female participation in politics and the labor force, and they rank high on the embrace of markedly gender-biased attitudes. Perhaps most remarkably, the researchers discovered that even generations later and thousands of miles away, in utterly changed ecologies and regardless of religion, income, and intervening progress—medical improvements, economic development, technological change, and the production structure of an economy—we continue to reap attitudes sown
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