On the other hand, in tropical farming cultures (e.g., in sub-Saharan Africa and the highlands of New Guinea) that traditionally don't use ploughs but instead use light hoes to weed, the women often do the large majority of the farm work, while the men tend to sit around waiting for their womenfolk to feed them. (Plows and draft animals to pull them tend to require large amounts of upper body strength to manage, they are men's work.)

The reason that Western and Middle Eastern plough/dowry cultures compared to tropical hoe/brideprice cultures, where the husband works hard to bring home the bacon, are less tolerant to wifely infidelity and introducing cuckoo's egg offspring fathered by other bio-fathers is because husbands invest a lot more work in their wives and children and thus are less tolerant of wives fooling around on them than in sub-Saharan African hoe cultures.

An extreme caricature of
traditional hoe cultures' style of sexual relations found in America is the ho-pimp culture where the women do all the work and the man invests in making himself sexy in clothing and demeanour to his women, while not demanding sexual exclusivity from them at all.