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Comment on the social and cultural determinants of sexual division of labour.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Systems of Kinship in India

The sexual division of labour allocates tasks by sex. Whether it follows from biology or society is settled by the evidence: a division exists everywhere, but what is assigned to whom varies so widely that biology cannot be its cause. India adds its own determinants — caste, purity and honour — so the division here…

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  • The biological case, and why it fails
  • The social and cultural determinants
  • The current Indian evidence
  • Conclusion

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