The last domestic animal to be tamed by Woman was Man. -- Will Durant
Fascinating, John. All this excitement is not about as major a change as the Beeb and the Guardian believe: the women always worked the fields while the men lazed in the shade and drank beer, and occasionally made war. The one actual change is into whose pocket the market economy puts the yield of the labour.
But the instrument of change is super: the bicycle! Who would have guessed. (Actually, a custom bike maker did: Craig Caffee had a clever scheme to help Africans make their own bicycles from bamboo -- https://calfeedesign.com/bamboo/) I rather liked these cycling ladies' precursors, the MamaBenz, too.
(http://www.coolmainpress.com/miscimage/Raleigh%20The%20%20All-Steel%20Bicycle.jpg)