The purpose of this paper is to explore a more precise form for theoretical
propositions in certain types of cross-cultural problems and to develop and
explicate an accompanying statistical method. An inductive application of
the method of entailment analysis has led us to formulate a new and power
ful theory of the sexual division of labor.
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