I’m not talking about a fairytale matriarchy from long ago and far away. I’m talking about a matriarchy here and now in northern California. I live in one, though I imagine that some might say that it ...

Big Heart, Strong Hands is the story of women on the isolated Estonian islands of Kihnu and Manija in the Baltic Sea. Often viewed as the last matriarchal society in Europe, the older women there take ...

Who runs the world? In these six societies: Girls. By standard definition, a matriarchy is a “family, group or state governed by a matriarch (a woman who is head of a family or tribe).” ...

The saying 'It's a Man's World' is well known but is gradually shifting. In today’s world, most societies are governed by patriarchal systems—where men hold the majority of power in leadership, ...

For the last century, historians, anthropologists and other scholars have searched both human history and the continents to find a matriarchy—a society where the power was in the hands of women, not ...

Why are modern men such layabouts? It’s simple. When the family declines, men decline. A couple of years ago Rod Dreher wrote a column about this phenomenon. You can read it here. Quoting various ...

A matriarchy rules on one of the Bijagos Islands off the coast of Guinea-Bissau. The tribe of the same name lives on Orango, one of the most populated islands in the archipelago. Women dominate public ...