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Functionalism on Gender
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Functionalists argue a gendered division of labor fit conditions like pregnancy and nursing, then persisted to keep the family running.
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In a subsistence economy, nursing intervals decided who could hunt or trade; tasks sorted by that constraint and outlived it.
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Explaining why an arrangement took hold does not show it fits today; working mothers do most unpaid childcare despite paid jobs.