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Lisa Carver interviews the anthropologist Helen Fisher

Can't wait to read the article itself (and whatever Lisa's next manuscript will be) but for the moment:

You look at Indian, China, Japan, North Africa, all of European societies, there was a double standard sexually where women were the cloistered vessel of a man's seed. We came even to believe that women were less sexual than men. So here we are now all of a sudden – and it really is all of a sudden – with the beginning of the industrial revolution, both men and women began to leave the farm to do industrial work. By 1900, only about 16% of women were in the working world making money, and they were there only until they married, and then they left the working world. But after World War One, we have washing machines and dishwashers and automobiles, and women have time to work, and businesses and the service professions are expanding and they can use women. So we've seen around the world women piling back into the job market. A job market they left as much as 10,000 years ago.

Posted by Richard Eoin Nash on February 3, 2007 12:31 PM |

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