Editing Matriarchy (section)

==== Europe ====
[[Tacitus]] claimed in his book ''[[Germania (book)|Germania]]'' that in "the nations of the [[Sitones]] woman is the ruling sex."<ref>[http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/tacitusc/germany/chap1.htm Tacitus, Cornelius, ''Germania'' (A.D. 98)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907080254/http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/tacitusc/germany/chap1.htm |date=September 7, 2013 }}, as accessed June 8, 2013, paragraph 45.<br />Paragraph 45:6: ''Suionibus Sithonum gentes continuantur, cetera similes uno differunt, quod femina dominatur: in tantum non modo a libertate, sed etiam a servitute degenerant. Hic Suebiae finis.''{{Citation needed|reason=The linked-to source does not have a paragraph 45:6 or this non-English text; please cite what does.|date=July 2014}}</ref>{{Efn|[[Sitones]], a Germanic or Finnic people who lived in Northern Europe in the first century AD}}

[[Anne Helene Gjelstad]] describes the women on the [[Estonia]]n islands [[Kihnu]] and [[Manilaid|Manija]] as "the last matriarchal society in Europe" because "the older women here take care of almost everything on land as their husbands travel the seas".<ref>{{cite book |title=Big heart, strong hands |isbn=9781911306566 |date=January 2020|last1=Gjelstad |first1=Anne Helene |publisher=Dewi Lewis }}</ref>
<ref>The Guardian, [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/feb/26/where-women-rule-the-last-matriarchy-in-europe-in-pictures-anne-helene-gjelstad Where women rule: the last matriarchy in Europe – in pictures] (2020-02-26)</ref>