Ponderings on the female role
I’ve been thinking lately… women really do have all the power. Females provide the cellular building blocks and nourishment necessary for creating new life, females are the primary caregivers for the young, females guide evolution through selection of certain traits in males, and in many species females provide food and protection for the social group.
And what do men do? They provide genetic diversity. By mixing up their chromosomes with ours, they allow for the variation in traits between individuals that comes in handy when something happens to a population - only some die, rather than all.
And to top it all off, all developing embryos are inherently female unless provided with a product of the Y chromosome during a specific moment of development. So given all this, why are human societies traditionally male-dominated?
And what do men do? They provide genetic diversity. By mixing up their chromosomes with ours, they allow for the variation in traits between individuals that comes in handy when something happens to a population - only some die, rather than all.
And to top it all off, all developing embryos are inherently female unless provided with a product of the Y chromosome during a specific moment of development. So given all this, why are human societies traditionally male-dominated?