When we work in the market we can take advantage of the division of labour.
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Your argument and the statistical assessment squarely reflects the Islamic point of view on the division of labour between men and women.
Go back all the way to Adam Smith and the point of trade is the division and specialisation of labour that it allows.
But as humans brought the idea of division of labour north, the female side of the bargain gave the species a significant advantage by providing fallback foods when big game was scarce and allowing more people to inhabit a given piece of land in times of plenty.
Then came that development of the grid which meant that it was better, more efficient, to go with the division of labour.
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What of the advantages of specialisation and division of labour?
It is not enough to say that specialisation and the division of labour yield enormous economic benefits.
The division of labour, the specialisation of it and the trade in the resultant production makes everyone richer.
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As Adam Smith pointed out, the bigger the market, the greater the scope for the division of labour.
Signs of division of labour come only with the arrival of modern humans into Europe around 40, 000 years ago.
Co-operation would nonetheless quickly break down if individuals could enjoy the advantages of division of labour without making a contribution of their own.
Ever stronger trade links between rich and would-be rich countries will mean a reshuffle in the division of labour around the world, creating new jobs and destroying or displacing existing ones.
The division of labour runs thus: the younger Takenaka, Kenji, chisels the cherry-wood blocks to old designs and new ones of his own invention, while his father Seihachi runs off the prints by hand, one by one.
But the division of labour is fuzzy.
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The efficient division of labour requires a tight schedule.
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Mr Blair has been persuaded by Lord Jenkins that the division of the centre-left between Labour and Liberals has been its besetting weakness in this century.
He puts the blame for Labour's long periods out of power largely on the division of the forces of the left.
The limitation to how much division of labour you can get, how much specialisation, and thus how much increased production you can have to trade is the size of the market.
Yet modern man engages in the sharing of tasks and in an extremely elaborate division of labour with strangers that is, with genetically unrelated members of his species.
Or will an irate prime minister scold it for allowing an impression of sleaze and division to reach the point where party officials have started to say in private memos that Labour is in danger of losing the next election?
Joint leadership may also work well in the tech world because there is an obvious division of labour between technologically minded product managers and sales and marketing types.
That it was division of labour which gave modern humanity its edge over the Neanderthals is not a completely new idea.
What it does do, though, is shift the power to plan the day from the consultant to the hospital manager - and in most other organisations this division of labour, makes perfect sense.
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