Ethnographic evidence has revealed that traditionally, Pawnee women worked wood, and among the Hidatsa, women made boats. Cases such as these suggest that
A. exceptions to cross-cultural generalization are actually the rule.
B. biology has nothing to do with gender roles.
C. anthropologists are overly optimistic about finding a society with perfect gender equality.
D. patterns of division of labor by gender are culturally general-not universal.
E. the division of labor by gender is a natural characteristic of human societies.
Answer: D
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