1. Gender roles and Popular religions
Religions that appear to encourage the gender roles that have resulted from evolution tend to favor the male species. ... Males tend to be polygynous. ... Since wives are essentially betrothed to a man through their mothers, any siblings that the mother conceives will also belong to the same man: "At the time of the girl's puberty ritual, her father selects a man and gives him a ceremonial spear, as a sign that any girls his daughter may be delivered of later will eventually become wives of that man" (Potts 89). ... Marrying girl children is defended and promoted as a man's right as ...
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