What if women ruled the world? Well, world would definitely be very different. If the women called the shots then a lot of religions would have been conceived differently for one thing! At the very least the "Heavens" would have good looking men as opposed to Virgin women or good-looking "Apsaras"... isn't it? Why would women keep women in the Heavens? Thats the perversity of the men. We can't get them here, so we have an aspiration to get 'em there! Argentinian writer Ricardo Coler decided to find this out and spent two months with the Mosuo in southern China. Musuo is a matriarchical society where the women call the shots. When we say women call the shots - it means they rule, they own everything, they decide the policies, they set the standards for the society to live by. So what happens when women are at the helm of the society? Less or no violence: Women do not solve their problems by violence. Now, we are not talking of a woman minister or ruler in a man's world (like say Indira Gandhi), but in a society that is built ground-up AS as women's oriented society! In fact violence is supposed to be something to be ashamed of. Women simply have a different way of 'dominating'. Violence is not part of that. Men work less: Now, this is counterintuitive! But think of it like this - women own the money.. they earn it.. so who does more work? Even if a man was to do some work, he will be paid less anyways. So, man's work is very restricted. There is not much he can do. In fact, to women in a matriarchical society, men can be little more than sex toys. Birth of a boy is a catastrophe: When a boy is born in a family, then its tragedy for that family.. as men control no money... only women do. So, boy means more poverty. Girls are the only way to a long term prosperity for a "family". A man's role is very limited - do labor or be a way to satisfy the women. Sex power means Women choose!: Now, in a man's world, the prostitutes are almost always women. Women are used and abused. Men decide to change a woman a night and go on. Well in a matriarchical society, the mores remain the same, but the roles change! It is best explained by Coler in these words: The sexual life of the Mosuo is very distinctive and very active -- partners are changed frequently. But the women decide with whom they want to spend the night. Their living quarters have a main entrance but every adult woman lives in her own small hut. The men live together in a large house. The door of every hut is fitted with a hook and all the men wear hats. When a man visits a woman, he hangs his hat on the hook. That way, everybody knows that this woman has a male visitor. And nobody else knocks on the door. If a woman falls in love, then she receives only the specific man and the man comes only to that woman. Read more