The saying 'It's a Man's World' is well known but is gradually shifting. In today’s world, most societies are governed by patriarchal systems—where men hold the majority of power in leadership, ...

For Yellowjackets’ resident mystic, the nightmare begins after what’s left of her high school soccer team escapes the wilderness. In a sequence that opens the second season of Showtime’s hit thriller, ...

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 ...

Ancient DNA from Stone Age burials in Turkey has finally put to rest a decades-long debate about whether the 9,000-year-old proto-city of Çatalhöyük was a matriarchal society. The research finally ...

In the mid-Nineties in Norilsk, Siberia, seven-year-old Nadya Tolokonnikova dreamt of being an advertising executive — drawing up pitches for Fanta and Coca-Cola commercials. It might be a ...

Brian Cox is a man of many thoughts. The seasoned actor shared his latest one on an episode of The Starting Line, a British interview podcast, telling the world his views on female-led society. “We ...

This piece was originally published in 2023. We are republishing it now that Yellowjackets Season 1 is streaming on Netflix. For Yellowjackets’ resident mystic, the nightmare begins after what’s left ...