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Listen to author and science journalist, Angela Saini, discuss the myth of “The Patriarchy.” Rather than there being only one, there are and always have been many patriarchies. Her research illustrates how some societies used to be more egalitarian than they are today but have been influenced by the strict gender roles of more recent generations. By understanding the below, we may better understand how our perspective on gender influences sexist biases being codified in tech.In this episode, we discuss:
How “we’re constrained by our own experiences and beliefs” (The Patriarchs, 7)
How “subservience does not, on the whole, come naturally to people,” and how religion has been used to enforce women’s subservience in society (The Patriarchs, 27, 66)
Çatalhöyük, one of the oldest settlements in ancient civil ...