ICTS:31044

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Evolving a Gendered Division of Labor

Evolving a Gendered Division of Labor

(2025). Evolving a Gendered Division of Labor. SciVideos. https://youtube.com/live/xD0H0jcxkYo

Evolving a Gendered Division of Labor. SciVideos, Mar. 18, 2025, https://youtube.com/live/xD0H0jcxkYo 

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Cailin O'Connor
Talk numberICTS:31044
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Abstract

All known human societies use gender to divide labor.  Extant game theoretic models in economics explain this division via appeal to rational predictions of what skill specializations will yield success in "marriage markets".  In this talk I argue that these high rationality assumptions are neither necessary nor appropriate in explaining gendered division of labor.  I use cultural evolutionary models to show how natural processes of learning and symmetry breaking predict and explain gendered division of labor.