Ehrenberg adds to her defense a study which provides the percentages of male and females who care for agriculture in their societies, “Of 104 horticultural societies existing today showed that in 50 per cent of them women, were exclusively responsible for agriculture, in 33 per cent women and men shared various tasks, and in only 17 per cent were men wholly responsible for farming.” (pg. 20). This study however only analyzes societies in which ploughs and large field animals such as oxen, are not used. The statistics would be drastically different in plough agriculture where most of the farm work is performed by men rather than women. In any case, the study still provides proof that there is a consistent pattern throughout history between the roles of men and