[marktwain]

The reason it worked like this for 100,000 years is because the women were the ones who produced the milk! Technology has allowed for men to partake in the feeding of the young. Not to mention the part that allows the man to actually *GASP* cook and clean up after them. Also, given that most of the "producing" doesn't entail bringing down a 1000 lb beast, the woman can actually bring home a paycheck and take care of (produce) for the family.

Your reasons reinforce the previous article. They simply add more detail and are part of the larger picture. If they were enough by themselves, the current displacement of sex roles would have happened when dairy farming was invented. :-)

[sandbar]

>If they were enough by themselves, the current >displacement of sex roles would have happened when dairy >farming was invented. :-)

I will say to you like I said to the other poster, babies can't drink cow's milk. Not untill a year or so out. Not to mention the invention of bottles would be a factor, even if they could drink the goat's milk (an alternative to mother's milk) The invention of the bottle pushed things along, but even that wasn't readily available for cheap untill the later part of the 20th century. The invention of things able to allow the mother (including birth control!!!!) to be able to leave the children to work is what changed the roles. And that doesn't necessarily make them bad.