WI society developed in such a way that women were university preceded as the dominant sex?
A number of cultures do have this, but for this too occur you need to eliminate war and the need for manual labor, or at the very least radically alter how it is perceived and done and thus butterflying away anything recognizable.WI society developed in such a way that women were university preceded as the dominant sex?
A number of cultures do have this, but for this too occur you need to eliminate war and the need for manual labor, or at the very least radically alter how it is perceived and done and thus butterflying away anything recognizable.
One possible mindset is that men are good for fighting and working but bad for thinking and so women think and men do. Kind of like a tool or a draft animal.
I don't think it's very likely as might makes right is a pretty simple concept, but I'm just brainstorming a little here.
Normally, the more peaceful the society the more egalitarian it is. It is true that a number of matriarchal societies do form and have warlike characteristics, it is equally true that rather peaceful patriarchal societies are more friendly towards women and their respective rights than those that are not so.AFAIK the (rather few) more matriarchaic cultures are in no way less warlike. Nevertheless, even in these the men fight.
I think the biological impetus as Sucrose has it must be eliminated. If both sexes are equally important for offspring, it could be enough. But that pretty much alters mammal biology as a whole.
Eliminating advantages in strength should be helpful as well, though.
Normally, the more peaceful the society the more egalitarian it is. It is true that a number of matriarchal societies do form and have warlike characteristics, it is equally true that rather peaceful patriarchal societies are more friendly towards women and their respective rights than those that are not so.
Normally, the more peaceful the society the more egalitarian it is. It is true that a number of matriarchal societies do form and have warlike characteristics, it is equally true that rather peaceful patriarchal societies are more friendly towards women and their respective rights than those that are not so.*Cough* Spartan women ?
Have chimpanzees be polyandrous.
Normally, the more peaceful the society the more egalitarian it is. It is true that a number of matriarchal societies do form and have warlike characteristics, it is equally true that rather peaceful patriarchal societies are more friendly towards women and their respective rights than those that are not so.
If early civilizations had a priestess caste in common, and the priestess caste supplied the leadership, then perhaps early civilizations would have matrilinear queens, mostly male soldiers and laborers, and egalitarian intellectual classes.
That does seem like a good solution. Though, wouldn't allowing female priesthood (= having priesthood not being male-exclusive) be enough? Does having a Goddess instead of a God really matters?Last of the Stuarts said:I would have to agree, to me the major religions have all been pro-male and to a certain extent anti-female. The best way to get women in charge is to have a female god(dess) and a female priesthood.
From this would come a far more equal role for females, as even if there where male kings they would be guided away from laws that marganilised females (i.e. females allowed to inherit property, equal shares in divorses etc.)