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Speculative Fact #326: The Separating Spheres of Gender

8/11/2016

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The role of women in Western society has not been the slow but steady climb we often imagine. Instead, it was (is) more of a wave with peaks and valleys.  Researchers have just found evidence of women buried at Stonehenge, a burial site for the elite, some 3,000 years ago.  But, it was during the Victorian era that women were relegated to the strict "Angels in the house" gender roles that we are still sorting out today.  
     Consider this when world-building. The roles of the sexes impacts everything and depends on historical and aesthetic influences that should be thought through carefully in your story. 

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Jan S. Gephardt link
8/17/2016 10:07:23 am

Remember that culture is to us as water is to a fish. Sometimes we need to check assumptions we don't even realize are assumptions!

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