Increasing numbers of women are recognizing their power, and their autonomy

Increasing numbers of women are recognizing their power, and their autonomy, but men's fear of this power is a projection of their own world-view. Women do not use their power to dominate or to subordinate, as is typical of a dominator society. Rather, women use their power to increase the well-being of their environment. Men who fear women's strength fear a matriarchy, the inverse of a patriarchal society, and they do not wish to be subordinates in such a society. But there is no evidence that a matriarchal dominate-subordinate society has ever existed. What my indeed have existed is partnership societies in which women and men held equally valuable roles. Miriam Robbins Dexter PhD, Whence the Goddess: A Source Book