« From the Upper Paleolithic, it is not known for the previous period when several human species coexisted, there were significantly more sedentary hunter-gatherer-fisher societies accumulating resources and some ostentatious wealth. Such societies are generally more unequal, sometimes slave-owning, and do not hesitate to conduct recurrent expeditions to plunder the resources of their neighbors and capture women. Expansionist societies tend to be dominated by males, who are more inclined to engage in external, warlike or commercial relations. The prestige of warriors as well as the resources derived from exchanges are all factors that promote male domination and inequality. »

« Evolution has never been more Darwinian in its most caricatured meaning, both elimination and proceeding in terms of reproductive success, than in human history. Women represent the ecological, reproductive and producing sex well. In other words, as Marx and Engels wrote, the condition of women is at the root of all inequalities in human societies and their evolution. »

« At the end of October 2015, McKinsey's Global Institute published a study that concludes with this dizzying observation: if, worldwide, women were considered equal to men in business, global wealth would increase by more than $1,200 billion! This work confirms hundreds of surveys and studies that, especially since the 2008 financial and economic crisis, claim that countries and companies that ensure the integration of women at all levels of responsibility have better economic results. In a way that is both relevant and not devoid of impertinence, one might ask whether there is a correlation between the countries of the north and those of southern Europe linking, on the one hand, the level of debt and, on the other, the level of inequality of tasks between the sexes, the quality of education and well-being. All of this is well known. So why doesn't economic reason prevail? From nomadic Type A companies to digital companies, once again, it is not a question of means of production but of the ideology of male domination. The crisis of the Covid-19 reveals how the division of trades, whose anthropological foundations go back to prehistory, as Alain Testart has very well demonstrated, has weakened our societies. All the professions of personal assistance, increasingly feminized and not relocated, have been hard hit, while occupations based on external or distant relations, the most valued, more invested by men and responsible for the virulence of the spread of coronavirus, have been much less so. This anthropological tendency is found that confines women and their activities within the group while men are more engaged in relations outside the social group. However, it is thanks to these trades with people that the crisis has not taken on a catastrophic scale. »