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It’s much more complicated than that. In matriarchal societies women don’t need to use their “sexual powers to get perks”.

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Other studies have looked at the confidence of girls and women in matriarchal societies and found that they have equal confidence in their decision making as males. By contrast, the more patriarchal the society, the less confidence females had in their decisions compared to males.

I can see how in a society where women have less power, they would use their sexuality to influence the males that do. It would also make sense that lower status males would try to elevate their status by putting females down below them.
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This is definitely a tangent, but were any of these matriarchal societies agriculturally based? I read something about how the status of women in society was often harmed in places after the agricultural revolution took place. It had to do with owning and defending property and passing it along to heirs as well as treating women much like the the livestock they were now breeding. [/quote]

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