The status of women in preindustrial societies

Women's contribution to subsistence will be negatively associated with women's status (46)

See p. 146 for results.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
`UNKNOWN`	Not Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Contribution To Subsistence, By Women	Independent	Division Of Labor By Gender
Women's Status	Dependent	Gender Status

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Whyte, Martin King	1978	Women's contribution to subsistence will be positively associated with women's status (45)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sanday, Peggy Reeves	1973	Agricultural type and intensity will be curvilinearly related to women's contribution to subsistence; women will contribute the least in societies without agriculture and with intensive agriculture (1691).	Claimed supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sanday, Peggy Reeves	1973	Female status will be associated with female contribution to subsistence (1685).	Partially supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Brown, Judith K.	1994	"In those societies in which women make a major contribution to subsistence, food is produced by women working in groups and typically (but not always) an older woman is in charge" (234).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Zelman, Elizabeth Crouch	1974	Male reproductive ritual will be aassociated with higher female contribution to subsistence, higher female status, cognatic kinship and small families	Supported	5	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author