This is not to say that these people were good parents, that they didn’t have extensive help, or that they didn’t heavily rely on their spouses to do deeply unequal child rearing. But it should be surprising that if we were one of the only groups in history working so productively that we should eschew child rearing entirely.
It doesn’t seem surprising at all to me—for example, I have a hard time thinking of any historical community that has not separated child-rearing duties by gender. I mean, I’m sure there’s one out there, but it’s probably vanishingly rare. The present seems very unusual in that regard.
It doesn’t seem surprising at all to me—for example, I have a hard time thinking of any historical community that has not separated child-rearing duties by gender. I mean, I’m sure there’s one out there, but it’s probably vanishingly rare. The present seems very unusual in that regard.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/regional-averages-of-the-composite-gender-equality-index