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== Gendered division of labour ==
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The clearest exposition of the principles of '''sexual division of labour''' across the full range of human societies can be summarised by a large number of logically complementary implicational constraints of the following form: if women of childbearing ages in a given community tend to do X (e.g., preparing soil for [[planting]]) they will also do Y (e.g., the planting); while for men the logical reversal in this example would be that if men plant, they will prepare the soil.

White, Brudner, and Burton's (1977) "Entailment Theory and Method: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Sexual Division of Labor",<ref>{{Cite web |last=White |first=Douglas R. |last2=Burton |first2=Michael L. |last3=Brudner |first3=Lilyan A. |date=1977 |title=Entailment Theory and Method: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Sexual Division of Labor |url=http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pub/Entail77.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060517143452/http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pub/Entail77.pdf |archive-date=17 May 2006 |access-date=13 August 2006 |website=BEHAVIOR SCIENCE RESEARCH VOLUME 12, NUMBER 1}}</ref> using statistical [[entailment]] analysis, shows that tasks more frequently chosen by women in these order relations are those more convenient in relation to [[childrearing|child rearing]]. This type of finding has been replicated in a variety of studies, including those on modern industrial economies. These entailments do not restrict how much work for any given task could be done by men (e.g., in [[cooking]]) or by women (e.g., in clearing forests), but are only least-effort or role-consistent tendencies. To the extent that women clear forests for agriculture, for example, they tend to do the entire agricultural sequence of tasks on those clearings. In theory, these types of constraints could be removed by provisions of child care, but [[ethnographic]] examples are lacking.