rt. This brings us to when women started to become condemned to their homes. The subordination of women seems to have started at about the same time the hunter-gatherers settled down to farm. When men gave up hunting, they took over agriculture and animal domestication, which had been women's jobs. The new division of labour gave men greater authority and responsibility outside the home. It put women inside the home for the first time, where their responsibilities were limited and within their homes. Where and when women lost control over agriculture and animals, they lost control over the primary economic resources of their families. Now that men had possessions, protecting them become important. Men
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