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# View of 'man as hunter, woman as gatherer' upended by new study
- URL: https://werd.io/view-of-man-as-hunter-woman-as-gatherer-upended-by/
- Published: 2023-07-03T16:43:35.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-03T16:43:35.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:21

So much of gender essentialism is self-feeding: the idea that men are born to be aggressive hunters was conducted by men who made assumptions based on contemporary societal sexism. Of course women hunted. Of course grandmothers hunted. There's so much value in re-examining the prejudiced assumptions of the past. [#Society](https://werd.io/tag/Society)

\[[Link](https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/07/01/1184749528/men-are-hunters-women-are-gatherers-that-was-the-assumption-a-new-study-upends-i)\]