It is the ultimate domestic cliché: a woman, pinafored and dutiful, tending a
stove all day in preparation for her husband’s homecoming. As soon as he
walks in, the ritual can begin: family members take their seats around the
table (he sits at the head, of course) and dinner is served. Our couple are
reliving a scene that has played out billions of times in our history
because gender roles — husband at work all day, woman as homebody — have
been forged not by relatively recent social conventions but by our distant
evolutionary past.
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