Some people claim the women are dominated and exploited all over the world.
When people make these accusations they are not looking at the whole picture. There are many things that need to be taken into consideration before making the assumption that women are actually dominated and exploited.
First we should define the terms dominated and exploited. To be dominated mean that someone has control over someone else. To be exploited is to be taken advantage of and has no way to get out of the situation. Some people claim that women who pose for Playboy magazine are being exploited, but those women have a chose not to participate. .
In the three books, one movie and the film, I do not believe any of the women were being exploited. In certain situations they were being dominated, but the men were being dominated also. Most of the cultures work on a sexual division of labor, which mean there is women's work and there is men's work. Certain jobs are more feasible for women and the same for men. Because in all hunting and gathering societies the people have no access to baby formula, the children rely on breast milk for food. Because of this, women have to have babies and small children with the, so they can feed them. A lot of people claim the because most of these women stay at home and cook and clean, they are being dominated by the men, but it is just not possible for the women to go hunting with a baby, or for them men to take the baby with them. Sometimes these men have to go hunting for days, which means the baby would eat for that long of a period of time, and the mother can't hunt with a baby because the baby would be making noise and scare away any game they might be trying to catch. That is why these couples work on a complementary system of labor, which means both sexes do work, that helps each other. .
We must also look at the official and unofficial cultures of these societies when deciding if in fact women are r4eally being dominated and exploited.
