The explanation I was told is that all of these countries have large rural populations that work in agriculture and that's an industry that having more upper body strength is advantageous in, which means men typically do farm work and women do housework and other fields more, which makes cultural views of gender roles more rigid and conservative, on top of these countries being pretty religious in the case of Latin America
that sounds like one of those academic sociological hypotheses that hasn't been tested or studied in the real world, but it seems plausible enough to accept
The explanation I was told is that all of these countries have large rural populations that work in agriculture and that's an industry that having more upper body strength is advantageous in, which means men typically do farm work and women do housework and other fields more, which makes cultural views of gender roles more rigid and conservative, on top of these countries being pretty religious in the case of Latin America
that sounds like one of those academic sociological hypotheses that hasn't been tested or studied in the real world, but it seems plausible enough to accept
This hypothesis doesn't seem likely to me
Guess I was told wrong then