Well, if LH wants to believe it, so be it. Sure would like to know, though, how he thinks the crops got planted, weeded, harvested and gleaned; the cloth was woven; the children raised; the winnowing done; the milling finished; the houses built; and life in general got on if the men and women didn't work together as a team.

Moreover, his statements don't hold for every culture: I suggest reading Fergus Kelly's A Guide To Early Irish Law (Dublin: Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies, School of Celtic Studies; 1998 reprint of 1995 edition) for the Irish, even after the Norman invasion. American Indian nations were usually ultimately matriarchal, with the Council referring important decisions to the women for ratification (e.g., the Nez Perce); the same can be said of most of the Arctic peoples.

Nope, don't pay to make generalizations.