A lot of stereotypes have deep history. “E.W. Barber (Women’s Work, 29-41) suggests that this division of labor, which holds across a wide variety of societies (though commercial textile production was often done by men in pre-modern societies, something we’ll… Read More »Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right Round…
It is more complicated.
Interesting https://flowingdata.com/2025/11/04/spend-days-men-women-2024/
People had less children in history than you thought. “Our model Egyptian woman, married at 17, experiences nine live births and four (or three, depending on when menopause arrives) miscarriages. With nine live births and a 55% child mortality rate,… Read More »Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIb: Children and Childrearing
Marriage in the past looked different that I thought. “these societies are substantially less individualist than most modern societies: they understand individuals primarily as filling a role within a larger community, as parts of a whole, gears in a machine… Read More »Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation
Zaujímavý pohľad na to čo to znamená byť dospelý.
Men are actually more family oriented than women. “Recent research has shown that single women are overall more satisfied with their lives.” https://www.vox.com/even-better/458700/single-men-mental-health-romance-friendship-relationships-masculinity
Insights into bad stuff that is not so bad [Hidden Brain] No Hard Feelings #hiddenBrain https://podcastaddict.com/hidden-brain/episode/191530143 via @PodcastAddict
Modern world is great and if someone asks me, in what historical period would I like to live, it would be either now or the future. There are some changes we made to our societies tough, that make some stuff… Read More »Failures of Modern World
There is a Ship of Theseus about a ship being replaced piece by piece over time until the whole ship is built from the replacement parts. Is it still the same ship or not? The same goes for people. Our… Read More »Our Friends and Family Are Our Extension