TY - JOUR
T1 - Bargaining between the sexes
T2 - outside options and leisure time in hunter-gatherer households
AU - Deb, Angarika
AU - Saunders, Daniel
AU - Major-Smith, Daniel
AU - Dyble, Mark
AU - E. Page, Abigail
AU - Salali, Gul Deniz
AU - B. Migliano, Andrea
AU - Heintz, Christophe
AU - Chaudhary, Nikhil
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Authors
PY - 2024/7/1
Y1 - 2024/7/1
N2 - We discuss gendered division of labour in nuclear households as a bargaining problem, where male and female partners bargain over labour inputs and resulting leisure time. We hypothesize that outside options - an individual's fallback options for welfare outside their household, such as kin support - affects this bargaining process, providing those with greater outside options more leverage to bargain for leisure time. In two hunter-gatherer populations, the BaYaka and Agta, we take social capital as the determinant of outside options, using a generative model of the Nash bargaining problem and Bayesian multilevel logistic regression to test our hypothesis. We find no evidence for an association between social capital and division of leisure in either population. Instead, we find remarkable equality in the division of leisure time within households. We suggest the potential role of sex-egalitarian norms, non-substitutability of subsistence labour, bilocality and behaviours which maintain gender equality in immediate-return hunter-gatherers.
AB - We discuss gendered division of labour in nuclear households as a bargaining problem, where male and female partners bargain over labour inputs and resulting leisure time. We hypothesize that outside options - an individual's fallback options for welfare outside their household, such as kin support - affects this bargaining process, providing those with greater outside options more leverage to bargain for leisure time. In two hunter-gatherer populations, the BaYaka and Agta, we take social capital as the determinant of outside options, using a generative model of the Nash bargaining problem and Bayesian multilevel logistic regression to test our hypothesis. We find no evidence for an association between social capital and division of leisure in either population. Instead, we find remarkable equality in the division of leisure time within households. We suggest the potential role of sex-egalitarian norms, non-substitutability of subsistence labour, bilocality and behaviours which maintain gender equality in immediate-return hunter-gatherers.
KW - Complementary coordination
KW - Egalitarian societies
KW - Household division of labour
KW - Hunter-gatherers
KW - Leisure time
KW - Social capital
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85194533213&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.05.003
DO - 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.05.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85194533213
SN - 1090-5138
VL - 45
JO - Evolution and Human Behavior
JF - Evolution and Human Behavior
IS - 4
M1 - 106589
ER -