In Reply to: Re: Society has NOT always been partriarchical posted by Sorry, you are under delusion on September 06, 2003 at 00:02:43:
My point is not to make one sex more valuable, smart, leadership capable, etc. than the other. True there are differences between the sexes.
Throughout history, there have been powerful women leaders and some societies where women have vastly different roles than men do in most societies, and vice versa. One example is a South American tribe where the women are the hunters and the men watch the children. In nature, the same could be said of the King Penguin. (I think that is the right name, it is a species of penguin where the mama lays the egg and the daddy is the one that stays with it and protects it until it hatches.) My point is not to view men as lesser beings. Or to deny that there are general differences between sexes.
Some of the worlds strongest leaders have been women. It is just that women have less opportunity, though this is slowly changing, to acheive those positions. There are many more women leaders than you have listed.