A Cross-Cultural Summary: Status of Women

HRAF Press • • Published In • Pages: ??•
By Textor, Robert B.

Abstract

Textor summarizes cross-cultural findings on the status of women in relation to cultural, environmental, psychological, and social phenomena.

Note

Status of Women is a section of the book A Cross-Cultural Summary. Following each hypothesis are two sets of numbers enclosed in parenthesis: the first is the female status variable and the second is the identification for the other variable.

Samples

Sample Used Coded Data Comment
Ethnographic Atlas (EA)Previously Coded

Hypotheses (10)

HypothesisSupported
In societies where food production is by intensive agriculture over simple agriculture, the status of women will be inferior or subjected to male status (277, 55).Supported
In societies where marriage is commonly or occasionally polygynous over monogamous, female status will be inferior or subjected to male status (277, 242).Marginally Supported
In societies where nurturing agents have high rates of pain infliction towards infants, female status will be inferior or subjected to male status (277, 324).Supported
In societies that do not have adolescent male segregation, female status will be inferior or subjected to male status (277, 370).Supported
In societies where metal working is prevalent, females will have property rights (278, 71).Supported
In societies where there is superordinate justice, females will tend to have property rights (278, 138).Supported
In societies with high levels of sexual socialization anxiety, females will tend to have property rights (378, 311).Supported
In societies that believe in an attractive afterlife, females will tend to have property rights (278, 432).Marginally Supported
In societies with low fear of spirits, females will tend to have property rights (278, 440).Supported
In societies that believe in reincarnation, wife-lending or wife-exchange will be prevalent (279, 433).Marginally Supported
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