Matriarchy

Bumping this thread with an idea

It seems that the conclusion of this thread is that patriarchism raised from the low life expectancy of females prior to modern medicines, due to the dangers of childbirth, and also that polygyny is simply an overwhelmingly much more efficient method of reproduction, giving the societies that practiced it much more advantage in manpower supply compared to those who didn't. While societies like Siraya(CMIIW) tribes native of Taiwan which carefully maintain political balance between the sexes ended up with thin population due to that very practice....
It seems that polygyny has been the most effective weapon for strict patriarchal societies to conquer the world. It seems that societies that are not sufficiently patriacrhal won't ever going to employ such tradition and thus, will always end up as pushovers for expanding patriarchal societies....
Unless if they will....

I'm thinking whether matriachism can thrive through the employment of polygyny tradition. Would that be doable ? So maybe the initial basis of such society would be a handful group of women that collectively 'own' a male. Such family/micro community structure becomes the norm, and it grows from there. The question would maybe about how to keep women on top from there....

So how does this idea explain polyandrous societies?
 
So how does this idea explain polyandrous societies?

It explains why they are so rare, despite humans tending to build a great variety of complex and labyrinthine cultural systems. Polyandrous societies differ from matriarchies, though, in the critical distinction that they do not actually put women as the dominant gender ruling over men.

In point of fact, the woman often has little more legal power in such societies than in any other. Despite the superficial similarity to male-dominated polygamous societies the world over, the polyandrous community is not their true opposite.

Edit: Of course some such tribal societies do have women living much longer, but it is not balanced by men dying earlier except in very warlike societies. And of course in warlike societies men have greater power and rights by virtue of their being the ones doing the requisite violence.
 
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