There have been various hypotheses and “facts” attempting to explain the status of males and females in primate pre-state human societies and civilized state-level societies. Based on text reading, lecture notes, and other sources, the present socioeconomic, sex-role, and family status of males and females today can be explained through cultural evolution. Both biologically and psychologically men and women are different. There are inborn traits that have disposed them to different tasks in society. These …showed first 75 words of 963 total…

…showed last 75 words of 963 total…not to play rough. This can be traced trough cultural evolution, from generation to generation all the way back to the hunter-gatherer societies. Testosterone and physical characteristics such as muscles, have also attributed to the rise of male dominance. However, it is in my opinion that girls, not so much boys, are starting to be raised differently. Many girls do not put up with aggressiveness of males anymore and this has been because of culture.