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4. In this culture, man and women have different spheres of power

Reply to xmas74 (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 21, 2012, 02:37 PM

Jan 2012

Men have political power and women have economic power. Even if this is slightly in favor of women, it doesn't show that women are just as bad as men in patriarchy. There isn't male infanticide or ostracism of widowers as there is with the reverse gender in the more patriarchal areas of India.

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