As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men
and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly
inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species
on the planet. Isn't there a way we can use this capacity to
achieve greater harmony and equality between the sexes? In "The War
of the Sexes," Paul Seabright argues that there is--but first we
must understand how the tension between conflict and cooperation
developed in our remote evolutionary past, how it shaped the modern
world, and how it still holds us back, both at home and at
work.
Drawing on biology, sociology, anthropology, and economics,
Seabright shows that conflict between the sexes is, paradoxically,
the product of cooperation. The evolutionary niche--the long
dependent childhood--carved out by our ancestors requires the
highest level of cooperative talent. But it also gives couples more
to fight about. Men and women became experts at influencing one
another to achieve their cooperative ends, but also became trapped
in strategies of manipulation and deception in pursuit of sex and
partnership. In early societies, economic conditions moved the
balance of power in favor of men, as they cornered scarce resources
for use in the sexual bargain. Today, conditions have changed
beyond recognition, yet inequalities between men and women persist,
as the brains, talents, and preferences we inherited from our
ancestors struggle to deal with the unpredictable forces unleashed
by the modern information economy.
Men and women today have an unprecedented opportunity to achieve
equal power and respect. But we need to understand the mixed
inheritance of conflict and cooperation left to us by our primate
ancestors if we are finally to escape their legacy.
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