{"id":258,"date":"2018-04-02T21:51:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T02:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/?p=258"},"modified":"2018-04-02T21:51:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T02:51:02","slug":"who-runs-the-world-in-these-six-societies-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/2018\/04\/02\/who-runs-the-world-in-these-six-societies-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Who runs the world? In these six societies: Girls.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had such an amazing time reading this article,\u00a0<em>6 Modern Societies Where Women Rule\u00a0<\/em>by Laura Garrison. I sought out this article on matriarchal societies because it sparked my interest very suddenly. I was on Facebook the other day and saw a link to a matrilineal society,\u00a0<em>Akan,\u00a0<\/em>located in Ghana, where roles in the society are passed down matrilineally, meaning through the man&#8217;s mother. Eager to learn more, I stumbled upon Garrison&#8217;s article. She outlines 6 different societies in the world that are all female-led and still thriving today. I encourage all to read this article, as it is incredibly eye opening, especially in this tumultuous time where we still are seeing women&#8217;s voices stifled. The\u00a0<em>Mosuo\u00a0<\/em>of China, the\u00a0<em>Minangkabau<\/em> of Indonesia, the\u00a0<em>Akan\u00a0<\/em>of Ghana, the\u00a0<em>Bribri\u00a0<\/em>of Costa Rica, the\u00a0<em>Garo\u00a0<\/em>of Burma, and the\u00a0<em>Nagovisi\u00a0<\/em>of New Guinea are all examples of modern-day matrilineal societies. I do wonder, however, where the boys and men go, and does the absence of men ever prove to be troublesome when it comes to maintaining these societies? In class, we&#8217;ve covered the disparities still in place based on gender, so this was quite touching to know that these women are strong, self-sufficient, and truly independent. We could definitely use some of these in America.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/31274\/6-modern-societies-where-women-literally-rule<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had such an amazing time reading this article,\u00a06 Modern Societies Where Women Rule\u00a0by Laura Garrison. I sought out this article on matriarchal societies because it sparked my interest very suddenly. I was on Facebook the other day and saw a link to a matrilineal society,\u00a0Akan,\u00a0located in Ghana, where roles in the society are passed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3770,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3770"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}