(Jan 11, 2023 01:30 PM)confused2 Wrote: I suspect women generally have shorter legs than men. If you compared the average stride length of a woman with that of a man .. maybe 80%? AND they walk slower. So this 12,000 steps thing is actually evidence of dawdling.

(Jan 11, 2023 03:21 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote:

(Jan 11, 2023 01:30 PM)confused2 Wrote: I suspect women generally have shorter legs than men. If you compared the average stride length of a woman with that of a man .. maybe 80%? AND they walk slower. So this 12,000 steps thing is actually evidence of dawdling.

It would be, if you made it to the sink first...and then washed the dishes.

(Jan 10, 2023 09:09 PM)C C Wrote: https://theconversation.com/women-work-harder-than-men-our-anthropological-study-reveals-why-196826

EXCERPTS: We carried out a study of farming and herding groups in the Tibetan borderlands in rural China – an area with huge cultural diversity – to uncover which factors actually determine who works the hardest in a household, and why. Our results, published in Current Biology, shed light on the gender division of work across many different kinds of society.

The majority of adults across the world are married. Marriage is a contract, so one might expect roughly equal costs and benefits from the union for both parties. But unequal bargaining power in a household – such as one person threatening divorce – can lead to unequal contributions to the partnership.

[...] Our first finding was that women worked much harder than men, and contributed most of the fruits of this labour to their families. This was evidenced both by their own reports of how much they worked and by their activity trackers.

Women walked on average just over 12,000 steps per day, while men walked just over 9,000 steps. So men also worked hard, but less so than women. They spent more time in leisure or social activities, or just hanging around and resting.

This may be partly because women are, on average, physically weaker than men, and may thus have reduced bargaining power. But we also found that individuals (be they male or female) who disperse at marriage to live away from their kin have higher workloads than those who stay with their natal families.

So if you are female and move away from home at marriage (as most women do throughout the world), you suffer not just in terms of missing your own family but also in terms of workload. When both sexes disperse and no one lives with their natal families, both sexes work hard (as there is little help from kin) – but the woman still works harder. According to our study, perfect sex equality in workload only occurs in instances where men disperse and women do not.

These results help us to understand why women globally disperse, but men generally do not. Dispersal is especially bad for men – adding about 2,000 more steps per day to their step count, but only adding about 1,000 steps per day for women... (MORE - missing details)

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(Jan 11, 2023 05:52 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote:

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Tibetan rural culture is not the same as any other city urban culture

CC Wrote:Nah, really this team just wanted to insure their paper got published.