Anthropologists have found that around the world whatever is considered "men's work" is almost universally given higher status tha...n "women's work." If in one culture it is men who build houses and women who make baskets, then that culture will see house-building as more important. In another culture, perhaps right next door, the reverse may be true, and basket- weaving will have higher social status than house-building.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »