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1. The women have a very high status in the Kung society (pg. 13). They provide much of the food eaten by the villages (60-80%). They do most all of the gathering while the men hunt for the meat. The women are not merely laborers for the men but are major providers. From the gathering to the distribution, a Kung woman’s labor and its product remain under her own control (pg. 242). They have a much more equal role in providing for the major necessities in life than women in most societies do. The women also distribute the food. They sort their piles of food and give them as gifts, usually within forty-eight hours. Any division of labor by sex is not well defined. Village life is very intimate and a division between domestic and public life is of no importance to the Kung. Overall, Kung women maintain a status that is higher than that of women in many agricultural and industrial societies. This, according to Ernestine Friedl, is because the Kung women are involved more heavily in primary subsistence as well as the public distribution of the product of subsistence. Kung women have a high degree of autonomy and of influence over their people. Kung women respect their own importance and are knowledgeable in many different areas. They are likely to be competent and assertive individuals with much importance to their village’s survival (pg. 246). 2. Some would say that Kung men have higher status and greater power than Kung women.
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