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Women’s Gender Roles: From Horticultural Tribes to Modern Technocratic “White Collar” Work

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Throughout this treatise, we have described and analyzed the role of women in the various societies on which we have focused. In this section, we wish to continue that discussion by including an analysis of the roles of Christianity and democracy in elevating the status of women in society and expanding their roles.

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Glassman, R.M. (2017). Women’s Gender Roles: From Horticultural Tribes to Modern Technocratic “White Collar” Work. In: The Origins of Democracy in Tribes, City-States and Nation-States. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51695-0_154

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