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Robert Max JacksonDOWN SO LONG ..Working DraftChapter 5. Intimate Combat: The Responsibility for ChildRearingWomen everywhere raise children. Men everywhere have greater power thanwomen. These fundamental social patterns must be causally linked. But what isthe nature of those links?Both scientific theories and popular culture use women 's commitment tochildren to explain and to justify gender inequality. When a couple have childrensomeone must care for them. But we should not take women 's Responsibility forchild rearing for must ask why women do most child rearing. Or, even more, we must askwhy men do not. In brief, social opinion, internalized expectations, rationalcalculation, and the imbalance of spouses' resources used in conflicts all thrustthat Responsibility on women .
CH. 5 – CHILD REARING – P. 128 Robert Max Jackson DOWN SO LONG . . . Working Draft women and men both expect wives to provide …
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