Cross-Culturally, There Are More 'Rites of Passage' for Boys Than

Multiple Choice

Cross-culturally, there are more 'rites of passage' for boys than girls for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT (not including) that:

A) the female body's capacity to menstruate provides a natural marker of womanhood's potential onset.
B) the journey to manhood is harder because women raise children.
C) attaining manhood is more important than attaining womanhood.
D) in gender-segregated cultures little boys stay with female kin and have little idea what men do.
E) children of both genders are physically, concretely born out of female bodies, not male bodies.