Which of these statements best explains why anthropologists are so interested in the question of whether or not gender hierarchy is universal?
a. The existence of societies with gender equality would prove that anthropologists should be working forgreater gender equality in other cultures
b. If many cultures currently have or have had gender equality, this would indicate that modern societies couldachieve gender equality.
c. The fact that other cultures have gender equality could be used as evidence that societies with a genderhierarchy are backwards or primitive.
d. None of these; anthropologists are not particularly concerned with the question of equality.
b
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