# Women: the more moral sex?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-the-more-moral-sex/712792>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 16, 2015, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-the-more-moral-sex/712792 "2015-02-16T04:27:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-the-more-moral-sex/712792/81 "2015-02-19T22:17:42Z")

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> [@Hector\_St\_Clare](#):
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> The bulk of calories, not necessarily the bulk of protein. Anyway, you didn’t restrict your remark to hunter gatherer societies, and your remark isn’t even true of _all_ hunter gatherer societies. It’s true that in _many_ premodern cultures women are mostly responsible for providing for their own sustenance, and this is especially true in Africa (which is one reason polygyny is more common in Africa than elsewhere), but it’s certainly not true everywhere.

Globally, women make up 40% of the agricultural workforce. One out of five farms are headed by women. Women are and always have been a major force in food production. With polygyny being nearly universal until recent times (and still practiced in various forms basically everywhere today), it seems unlikely to me that whatever random loot the local tough is likely to feel like spreading among his partners (assuming he comes back home now and then when he’s board of raping) is going to make a huge difference- at least not compared with other things a guy might do to contribute to a household.

In the meantime, how did the leopard get his spots?

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