“[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.”

—  Margaret Mead

Source: 1930s, Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), p. 302, as cited in Women and Politics : An International Perspective (1987) by Herbert A. Applebaum, p. 18

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