Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter

Evolution and Human Behavior Vol/Iss. N/A Elsevier Published In Pages: ??
By Venkataraman, Vivek V., Hoffman, Jordie, Farquharson, Kyle, Davis, Elizabeth H., Hagen, Edward H., Hames, Raymond B., Hewlett, Barry S., Glowacki, Luke , Jang, Haneul, Kelly, Robert L., Kramer, Karen L., Lew-Levy, Sheina, Starkweather, Katie, Syme, Kristen L., Stibbard-Hawkes, Duncan N.E.

Hypothesis

Women are not expected to have a significant role in hunting in the majority of hunter-gatherer societies.

Note

The authors replicated the Anderson et al. (2023) method and found bias in the sample and coding errors. They found that of the 50 societies that the original study coded as women hunting, only 8 of them had explicit statements on that. The original hypothesis can be found here: http://192.168.10.248/documents/1453/hypotheses/5131.

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
Percentage comparisonsSupportedUNKNOWNUNKNOWNUNKNOWN

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
Women huntDependentHunting And Trapping, Division Of Labor By Gender