Meghalaya, India: Where women rule, and men are suffragettes

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5. Usually in a matriarchal society, power is divided equally between two spheres.

Men and women have different roles, but one is not considered better or worse than the other. And social mobility is much more obvious. Anyways it's not up to us to judge such cultures.

In patriarchal societies, ALL the power rests with men, whether religious, economic, political, or social. So when women are denied rights it is much worse than when men are, because when women are discriminated it's dehumanizing and an indication of how one half of humanity oppresses the others.