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Toward a Theory of the Status of Women 1
Author(s) -
SANDAY PEGGY R.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1973.75.5.02a00300
Subject(s) - subsistence agriculture , production (economics) , scale (ratio) , sample (material) , production theory , demography , socioeconomics , geography , sociology , psychology , ecology , biology , economics , agriculture , chemistry , cartography , chromatography , macroeconomics
A theory of the status of women is presented which draws primarily on ecological and economic factors and posits a relationship between female production and female status. It was hypothesized that female contribution to subsistence activities would be a function of certain ecological factors and/or a prolonged drain of male labor. It was found that these factors were related to female production activities. A scale of female status was then derived from a small pilot sample and correlated with female contribution to subsistence. The results indicated that female production is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the development of female status
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