In my opinion, the domestic tendencies of modern women is an *advancement* over animals, not a primitive sexist caveman atrocity inflicted on females by males. That is the stupid sicko feminist agenda creeping into our minds.
Look, just use a little common sense here. The culture that wins out in the long run and replaces or drives to extinction all other "inferior" cultures is simply the one that reproduces fastest and more efficiently feeds its babies.
The bible: be fruitful and multiply....hello! sound familiar?
Reproducing fastest and efficiently feeding the maximum number of babies means division of labor. Men cant have babies, so women have to. You cant chase a gazelle while dragging a dozen toddlers now can you? Or while carrying a baby in your belly. So in order to maximize the number of gazelle chasers in your tribe, you make the pregnant ones also the toddler tenders. Everyone else gets off their butts and chases gazelles! That includes all non-pregnant females. Obviously, since babies are only born one at a time, it would be wise to keep as many females pregnant as possible. That means not very many female gazelle chasers. PRETTY G-D SIMPLE AINT IT!
I'm going to guess that women also invented agriculture
Some pregnant woman got tired of walking from camp to where there was a berry bush, and got the bright idea of uprooting the bush and replanting it near camp. Then maybe decided she'd get more berries if she gave it some water
"It would be wise to keep as many women pregnant as possible."
Maybe wise, but not so easy. Primative woman often nursed their babies until they were 4 or 5 years old. Nursing inhibits ovulation, so women were less likely to become pregnant more than every 3 or 4 years. By this time the little ones are probably becoming fairly decent foragers themselves, as well as being quite mobile. When my first baby went in for his 18 month checkup, my pediatrician warned me "and never underestimate their capacity to climb."
"It would be wise to keep as many women pregnant as possible."
Maybe wise, but not so easy. Primative woman often nursed their babies until they were 4 or 5 years old. Nursing inhibits ovulation, so women were less likely to become pregnant more than every 3 or 4 years. By this time the little ones are probably becoming fairly decent foragers themselves, as well as being quite mobile. When my first baby went in for his 18 month checkup, my pediatrician warned me "and never underestimate their capacity to climb."