#1051 Mary Shenk: The Sexual Division of Labor, Kinship Systems, Fertility, & More
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Mary Schenk. She is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Demography, and Asian studies at Pennsylvania State University. She's a biocultural anthropologist, human behavioral ecologist, and anthropological demographer. with interests in marriage, family, kinship, parental investment, fertility, mortality, and inequality, and some other topics. And today we're going to focus mostly on the sexual division of labor, kinship systems, religion and fertility. And fertility decline and some other related topic. So, Dr. Schenk, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. It's a pleasure to be here, Ricardo. So I would like to start by asking you a little bit about the sexual division of labor. So from an evolutionary perspective,
How do you approach it? I mean, how do we start here? Where does it stem from? So there's a couple of different um types of Arguments. F for sexual division of labor, and this is Area of interest of mine, but it's not my central area of interest. Um
But I would say there's One argument for the sexual division of labor comes from Um literature focusing on The different kinds of constraints.
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