Scientists who studied children in matriarchal and patriarchal communities in China concluded that women are taught to be risk-averse.
Scientists exploring the notion that men are bigger risk-takers than women have concluded that such behavior is learned, not inherited.
As such, the grandmother is generally the head of a Mosuo household, with women making decisions and given higher or equal status to men. Children are raised in a home with their mother and her brothers and sisters, and their maternal granduncle, but fathers are “often excluded,” according to the authors of the study published in the journal PNAS.
The participants took part in a lottery to test their propensity to take risks. Overall, Han girls were found to be more risk-averse than their male counterparts, but Mosuo girls were less risk-averse than the boys. In first grade, Mosuo girls were more daring than the boys, but were overtaken as they aged. However, a comparable pattern was not seen in Han girls, as they were more risk-averse than Han boys at all stages.Corresponding study author Elaine M.
Lui acknowledged the study was limited because the researchers didn’t know if the behaviorial changes were permanent, or whether children would revert to their parents’ norms once they had finished school and moved back to their respective villages. Also, the study didn’t assess other behaviors associated with gender norms, such as competitiveness.
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