Discussion - Some scholars have argued that the hunting

DISCUSSION QUESTION;  

Some scholars have argued that the hunting and gathering ways of life for both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens allowed women - biologically, through their lactation and child-rearing, and calorically, through their dominant role as gatherers - to make a larger and more significant contribution to their communities than their male counterparts did.  In what ways might the development of settled agriculture have ushered in a shift in these gender roles?  What were the likely consequences for the balance of power and role of women as societies shifted from hunting and gathering to agriculture?  Why?

TEXTBOOK:Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Sixth Edition) (Vol. 1) RRRR4C