Post: #1

Anthropologist Peter Frost comments on more masculine digit ratios found among NorthWestern European womeb veing associated with more women in government and in the labor force.

He supposes that this pattern is not new, but is in fact related to the innate differences in Western European marriage patterns, which have long been distinct from Eastern Europe, according to him. He goes ibto evidence showibg the NW Europeans have long delayed marriage and preferred fewer offspring. This theory expands from there, if you read more Frost.

"In short, the more similar the two sexes were in 2D:4D, the more equal were the two sexes in parliamentary and labor force participation. The other variables were not as strongly correlated. (Manning et al., 2014)

In general, women from Northwest Europe have more masculine digit ratios, whereas women from farther east and south have more feminine digit ratios. This geographical trend is more pronounced for the right hand than for the left hand. Since the right-hand digit ratio is associated with social dominance, Northwest Europeans may be less sexually differentiated for that particular trait, as opposed to being less sexually differentiated in general.

Presumably, this isn’t a new tendency. Women must have been more socially dominant among Northwest Europeans even before the late 19th century and the earliest movements for women’s suffrage. So how far back does the tendency go? To medieval times? To pre-Christian times?"

http://www.unz.com/pfrost/gender-equalit...evolution/