Scientists may finally have confirmed what every woman from Raquel Welch to Wilma Flintstone has always suspected. Even back in prehistoric times, the female of the species was very much the boss. A study has found evidence of ‘alpha cavewomen’ roaming the plains and calling the shots while the menfolk slobbed at home. The boss: A new study may confirm what every woman from Raquel Welch, pictured here in One Million Years BC, has always thought - that the female of the species has always been in charge

　　一般来说，“男耕女织”的生活是原始社会的真实写照，而“男主外、女主内”也是社会发展的必然规律，虽然如今的职场生活中，女强人越来越多，然而对于传统的男女分工机制我们还是有着固定模式的理解的。近日，有科学家“所谓的”原始社会的真实写照进行了“颠覆性”的反驳，据悉，从史前时期开始，女性已经是女强人了，而所谓的男耕女织生活都是浮云，据科学家所调查的资料发现了“阿尔法穴居女性”的存在证据，证明了远古时期女性在外纵横捭阖，而男性只是“窝”在家里(原来“宅男”是真的可以有！)

女人天生强势 男人怕老婆有史可寻(双语)

　　The discovery could put paid to the belief that cavemen were the aggressive, violent go-getters in the relationship between the sexes. It also raises the intriguing possibility that Fred Flintstone, the eternally henpecked half of the cartoon partnership with Wilma, might actually have mirrored life on Earth all those centuries ago. Alpha cavewoman appears to have travelled far wider than her male counterpart, the research showed. She might even have been the one who went out clubbing, so to speak – reversing the popular conception that it was the bloke who bashed the girl on the head and dragged her home by the hair. But something seems to have happened to the evolution of the species after those times between 1.7million and 2.4million years ago. A couple more millennia would have to pass before female independence re-emerged with the bra-burning liberation of the Swinging Sixties。

　　研究发现穴居时代的两性都是生活在暴力、甚至相互争斗的气氛中的，“阿尔法穴居女性”似乎比同时代男性跋涉范围更广。她甚至还有可能外出聚会，可以说颠覆了传统认知：女子一旦出门，男子就要对其劈头盖脸一顿打，最后扯着她的头发拉回家，也就是说，“男人怕老婆”确实是“有史可寻”。虽然史料记载女性可能在遥远的时代是“母老虎”，但是这样的日子只是从240万年前持续到170万年前。而至“摇摆六十年代”开始的解放运动以及随之而来再次出现的女性独立潮又好像是历史再度重演的版本。

　　(编译：宴欣)