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Dec 11, 2019 at 0:54	comment	added	SRM		@KeithMorrison Strict is not the same as absolute. Strict in the sense that there was heavy pushback against anyone challenging the norms (ranging from social shunning to economic sanction to physical abuse and death) absolutely was the case, and remains the case in most of the world.
Dec 4, 2019 at 16:37	comment	added	Cort Ammon		@KeithMorrison Another example would be the Aborigines of Australia. In those cultures the separation of gender roles was extremely sharp. There were some tasks which we simply "mens tasks" and "womens tasks" and there was no flexing on the matter.
Dec 4, 2019 at 15:47	comment	added	Keith Morrison		No, there was not a strict differentiation except in the very basic biological sense and some political components such as voting. Otherwise, women had long worked in factories, men had raised children, women ruled empires. They might have represented a minority, but it negates the argument there was "strict separation of gender roles" because it's trivial to find counterexamples. Some idiots may have wanted to pretend it was the good and wise natural order, but even at the time they were pontificating schmucks.
Dec 3, 2019 at 5:33	history	answered	L.Dutch♦	CC BY-SA 4.0