Admittingly inspired from when I was thinking about that one episode of the Sliders tv series, but how can we see a Female Dominated (or at least a different series of traditional roles for women and men) society in the West? Sprouting from a Hellenistic source of origin? How would society develop? How would a Matriarchial West look to the Confucian East or the New World?
Basicly this entails a switching of the roles that the Greek Gods, Athena (The Manager) and Ares (The Worker) represent, with it becoming ssomething of a social norm for women to hold positions as say military officers, or merchants or craftsmen or administrators on a much higher scale then OTL? Either coming out to a female dominated West or a more equal society?
This could possibly develop from the late Bronze Age Collapse, or before with the cultural absorbtion of certain socieities like the Minoans into the Mycenaeans and then the Dorions or something. Though this premise I assume also assumes that butterflys would be netted and the hellenistic civilization would attain its similar level of influence in the West. Then what would a more OTL world look like and one without a buttefy net?