IS THIS THE END OF MEN AS WE KNOW IT?
Jul 01, 2019
3 minutes
By JOE MACKERTICH
Depending on how you look at it, the women of the Sanumá tribe in Venezuela are either really fortunate or particularly unlucky. The female members of the hunter-gatherer rainforest community have – for as long as anyone’s ever known – called the shots. In Sanumán society it’s the ladies who organise functions. It’s the women who arrange marriages. It’s even the women who labour in the fields, distribute crops and carry tools back and forth through the jungle.
Why are they unlucky? Because their male counterparts haven’t kept up their end of and Pringles.
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