Sexual division of labour

Sexual division of labour (SDL) is the delegation of different tasks between the male and female members of a species. Among human hunter-gatherer societies, males and females are responsible for the acquisition of different types of foods and shared them with each other for a mutual or familial benefit.^[1] In some species, males and females eat slightly different foods, while in other species, males and females will routinely share food; but only in humans are these two attributes combined.^[2] The few remaining hunter-gatherer populations in the world serve as evolutionary models that can help explain the origin of the sexual division of labour. Many studies on the sexual division of labour have been conducted on hunter-gatherer populations, such as the Hadza, a hunter-gatherer population of Tanzania.^[3] In modern day society, sex differences in occupation is seen across cultures, with the tendency that men do technical work and women tend to do work related to care.^[4]

^ Marlowe, Frank. "Hunting and Gathering: The Human Sexual Division of Foraging Labor." Cross-Cultural Research. 41.2 (2007): 170-95. Web.
^ Zihlman, A., and NM Tanner. "Gathering and the hominid adaptation." Anthropology Origins. 10.99 (2001): 163-194. Web.
^ Marlowe, Frank. (2010). The Hadza: the Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania. University of California Press.
^ Su, Rong; Rounds, James; Armstrong, Patrick Ian (Nov 2009). "Men and things, women and people: a meta-analysis of sex differences in interests". Psychol Bull. 135 (6): 859–884. doi:10.1037/a0017364. PMID 19883140. S2CID 31839733.

[1] Marlowe, Frank. "Hunting and Gathering: The Human Sexual Division of Foraging Labor." Cross-Cultural Research. 41.2 (2007): 170-95. Web.

[2] Zihlman, A., and NM Tanner. "Gathering and the hominid adaptation." Anthropology Origins. 10.99 (2001): 163-194. Web.

[3] Marlowe, Frank. (2010). The Hadza: the Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania. University of California Press.

[4] Su, Rong; Rounds, James; Armstrong, Patrick Ian (Nov 2009). "Men and things, women and people: a meta-analysis of sex differences in interests". Psychol Bull. 135 (6): 859–884. doi:10.1037/a0017364. PMID 19883140. S2CID 31839733.

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