News Mathematics 20 August 2018
Gender roles in war play out by the numbers
When evolution and mathematics combine, bloodshed results. Nick Carne reports.
The reason warfare is overwhelmingly conducted by men rather than women may lie in brute mathematics, researchers say.
The reality of gender roles in warfare is stark and ancient. With few exceptions, armies are primarily male, even though – as some of those exceptions amply demonstrate – women are just as capable of fighting.
Attempts to account for this phenomenon have cited many different potential causes, from the existence of violent male rituals to the influence of gender-biased written and visual fiction.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/mathematics/gender-roles-in-war-play-out-by-the-numbers
