In the essay, “Sex and Temperament,” anthropologist Margaret Mead examines the differences of temperament between men and women. She studies three different societies such as the Arapesh, Mundugumor, and the Arapesh. She opens up her essay explaining how finding the differences of temperament between men and women is more important than the actual differences because she is more interested in the temperamental traits such as “dominance and bravery” (713). She then goes into how the “sacrifice of sex differences has meant a loss in complexity to the society” of the Munugumor. She fears this loss of complexity could happen to our society. She describes how societies that promote the differences of men and women harshly always tend to have quite
