The roots of female emancipation: Initializing role of Cool Water

The Cool Water condition is a climatic configuration that combines periodically frosty winters with mildly warm summers under the ubiquitous accessibility of fresh water. Historically, it embodied opportunity endowments weakened fertility pressures, resulting in household formation patterns empowered women and reduced gender inequality. Reviewing literature on deep historic roots inequality, this paper theorizes provides evidence for trajectory (1) originates configuration, (2) leads to late female marriages preindustrial times, (3) eventually paves way various gender-egalitarian present.