Take a step back from the close quarters political combat of Seattle’s recent elections and you’ll see something that has never happened before: a complete matriarchy running this town. From our US ...

I was surprised to find out that a matriarchy is not actually the opposite of a patriarchy. Of course, it’s not surprising that I would’ve thought that. I have a hunch that most of us do. In our still ...

Does matriarchy exist? Peggy Reeves Sanday says yes. For two decades, Ms. Sanday, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, has been studying gender in West Sumatra, Indonesia. In ...