It is only the child that you gave birth to, who suckles your milk and that is the child that helps you." This comes to show again that the women who are younger and stronger have more power in the community than those who do not like Nisa.
Kung men have higher status and greater power than Kung women:.
First of all this statement is true and false depending on which way you look at it. On the yes side of it the men as primarily responsible for providing the meat for their family and village. With this comes hours and even days trying to find meat and sometimes they come up successful and sometimes they do not. "Five men working for three days represented a great outpouring of energy. Yet the animal protein netted was zero. A study of the Kung hunting has shown that the Kung were successful, on average, once in every four days they hunted." (p105) And without the men bringing back the meat the whole village would starve of hunger and die. So the men that went out hunting were seen as higher than the others. When Marjorie was out on her excursion with the men and women some reflections showed an explanation of why nothing had come at all or what was wrong as she states," Whatever the answers, younger men would surely not be lining up for lessons in the are of the classic hunt. And this was all the more disheartening because they were no young men in the village who were already skilled hunters." (p105) This also shows how everyone looks up to each other those out hunting were seen as more powerful than the one's who stayed back at camp. .
During the deep trances the men were known as the healers and cured everyone. During Marjorie's first trance back at camp she wanted so badly for the man to come heal her of her cancer. In a later trance the "women sang , and Kumsa went into trance Kumsa laid hands, making the rounds of the women-(P133). The men and women here were seen as equal with their own power over something.