Motives II: Why Do Women Become Suicide Bombers? Leaving the Women at Home

In most premodern societies, the men would ‚ght while the women would stay home. Men, when necessary, would attack or defend. Considered the weaker of the two sexes, women would raise children and run the home. It was as unimaginable that men would cook meals and keep the home clean as it was that women would hunt for food and defend the family in battle.