Analysis of the relationship between modes of production and gender inequality Among societies, there is a wide variety of means of survival, all of which depend factors influencing the community: geographical location. and the structure of authority, to name a few. These factors and community patterns of survival create the underlying basis for other complex issues, including gender relations. Many anthropological articles focusing on the modes of production of specific groups of people have shown a link between modes of production and the presence or absence of gender inequality. Furthermore, there is also evidence of another causality between the two: as a society adopts a more complex mode of production, the more distinct and apparent the sexual division of labor will appear. In several works, such as P. Bion and Agnes Estioko -Griffin's work, "Woman the Hunter: The Agta" and "Gender, Horticulture, and the Division of Labor on Vanatinai" by Maria Lepowsky: the societies represented show that their specific modes of survival allow for more impartiality. On the other hand, works such as “Divisions of Labor on Irish Family Farms” by Patricia O'Hara, “Pastoral Nomadism and Gender Among the Tuareg in Niger and Mali” by Susan Rasmussen and “Japanese Mothers and Obentōs: The Lunch Box » by Anne Allison. as an ideological state apparatus,” draw attention to other societies that have implemented modes of production that essentially serve as vehicles for the existence of gender inequality. In P. Bion and Agnes Estioko-Griffin's book, "Woman the Hunter: The Agta", foraging - or the hunting and gathering of wild food resources - is considered the primary mode of production of the Agta, a group of people living in ...... middle of paper ......ender to Cross- Cultural Perspective, 6th ed. Caroline B. Brettell and Carolyn F. Sargent, eds. 124-138. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.Lepowsky, Maria2012 “Gender, horticulture, and the division of labor in Vanatinai,” in Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, 6th ed. Caroline B. Brettell and Carolyn F. Sargent, eds. 131-138. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. O'Hara, Patricia 2001 “Divisions of Labor on Irish Family Farms,” in Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, 3rd ed. Caroline B. Brettell and Carolyn F. Sargent, eds. 271-279. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.Rasmussen, Susan2012 “Do tents and herds still matter: pastoral nomadism and gender among the Tuaregs of Niger and Mali,” in Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, 6th ed. Caroline B. Brettell and Carolyn F. Sargent, eds. 139-148. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.