ABSTRACT
There are lots of reasons women do not hunt, but these do not have anything to do with biology, with gender or with ability. They have to do with cultural conditioning and experience and obligations, both chosen and not chosen. When men go out to hunt with their friends, women often are obligated to stay at home to be with children; to be in and take care of the domestic aspect of family life; a realm most women have a great deal more experience with than men. There is something about eating a duck or goose that a person has shot himself that gives the person a kind of entre into a world non-hunters do not often enter. Some hunters might think these ideas rather romantic; especially hunters who still hunt out of absolute necessity to feed themselves and their families.
