4 More Things I Got Wrong About Patriarchy

“Who’s your biggest critic?”, someone recently asked.

“Truthfully? Me. I’m always re-assessing my earlier assumptions and correcting those errors”. And I’m not ashamed. It’s an integral to learning”.

In “3 Things I Got Wrong about Patriarchy”, I admitted that I previously over-estimated the importance of labour demand in agriculture, while under-estimating the role of culture and religion.

In “3 More Things I Got Wrong About Patriarchy”, I recognised that I had under-rated cultural production (e.g. films) and cultural liberalisation, while over-rating female friendships.

Now I wish to provide 4 major updates: