The relative decline in women’s contributions to agriculture with intensification

Intensive agriculture will be associated with shorter postpartum sex taboos (1 year or less) (294)

Intensive agriculture relationship with contraceptive use and abortion were tested and found to be not significant (294)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher’s exact test	Supported	p=.043	phi=0.43	One-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Intensive Agriculture	Independent	Tillage
Postpartum Sex Taboo Of 1 Year Or Less	Dependent	Postnatal Care

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Mace, Ruth	2003	Sex ratio at birth will be negatively correlated with the mortality rate of those under 1 year of age.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Kitahara, Michio	1975	"There is a significant correlation between living quarter arrangements for co-wives in polygynous societies and the frequency of circumcision of males at puberty when the factor of the length of the postpartum sexual taboo is controlled" (10).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Saucier, Jean-Francois	1972	"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent . . . in societies subsisting mainly on extensive agriculture and horticulture . . . in contrast to societies subsisting mainly on gathering, hunting, fishing, animal husbandry . . . intensive or modern agriculture" (243)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Low, Bobbi S.	1990	Lack of agriculture will be negatively associated with female inheritance of property, while intensive agriculture will be positively associated with female inheritance (6)	Marginally supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sheehan, Oliver	2018	Landesque capital intensive agriculture (representing general intensive agriculture) will be consistent with a model that has social stratification and political complexity (representing hierarchy) as the dependent variable.	Not Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author