What is Social Status?
A fairly in depth article, through I do find a major issue that recurs is that they use the same definition of aggression and violence for both men and women, and then use that to eliminate or minimize the existence of female aggression.<p>Like: <i>&quot;We tamed ourselves by weeding out bullies and domineering males throughout our evolutionary history. Humans organized egalitarian societies, and any male that violated this too much was subsequently the victim of a targeted killing.&quot;</i><p>Women competing with with other women using dominance behavior like bullying is a very common behavior, and I doubt there is a parent with a teenage daughter or teacher who has not observed this. We can also see this in apes, with female to female dominance behavior being one if not the biggest causes of death for female baboons. To continue with animal observations, male baboons have a different form of dominance behavior, and their behavior also result in dead baboons. Female aggression is about depriving the lower ranked females of food, water, sleep and grooming (together with some amount of bites and scratches), while male aggression is primarily about major injuries sustained during fights. If we define the latter as the single definition of aggression and dominance then the other form becomes invisible to us.<p>Going down further in the article, they define power as access to and control of resources. Not access to and control of people. This in order to say that women don’t have a strong craving for power because &quot;obtaining power entails the risk of being disliked, and, unlike status, power has few social payoffs&quot;. It uses an exclusively male definition for power.<p>Here (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;237101081_Female_Dominance_Hierarchies_Are_They_Any_Different_from_Males" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;237101081_Female_Do...</a>&#x27;) is a study done on dominance behavior in female vs male hierarchies. It basically fully invalidates most of this article&#x27;s claims on male vs female behavior in terms of dominance. It does not seem to use a male-centric definition of dominance.<p>I am not all against this article. It is a fairly in-depth description of the topic and an interesting read. I would however advise to consider some of the terminology and definitions to be a bit limited, and occasionally leading the reader into misconceptions by trying to use a single definition for both men and women.