Endnote 4 – Sexual Power and Political Prestige

An important caution needs to be stressed here. One should always inquire about the person carrying out this sort of evaluation. Even within one culture, women and men may hold different ideas about prestige and its relation to gender and sexual practice. Thus, the criteria that women use to evaluate the social worth of men or of other women may not be identical to the criteria used by men to evaluate women or one another.