Strong gender polarization is the norm in scarcity societies (eg: Iran, Uzbekistan, Russia).
That's one reason to seek out societies whose inhabitants have more sophisticated aspirations, imo.
That's one reason to seek out societies whose inhabitants have more sophisticated aspirations, imo.
Women pour drinks, men do Sumo.
According to these indices, gender inequality in Japan is lower than 85% of the world's other nations. It's not a direct measure of gender polarization, but presumably it's correlated: