In reading THE WASHING OF THE SPEARS the native men considered themselves warriors, the women were the farmers, and the kids cattle herdsmen.
Now I think of it, the American Plains Indian felt the same.
...the American Plains Indian felt the same.
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Saw it in Papua in the 70s. Women digging with sticks and carrying 40 pounds of vegetables on a tumplime while the men would deign to carry firewood, an airline flight bag, or a male child (and not all at the same time.
Most of the time, the men strolled in a group, laughing and weaving grass armbands.
When the sun went down, the men carried out ambushes on other villages. They called it *payback*. And they spent loads of time in the ‘men only’ huts, chewing betel and roasting yams.
I’d call it a hard-wired tribal human default, except in primitive European settlements, men did real work and the women were alongside them. There was still work separated by gender (mostly), but both actually produced value for the village and individual families.