How to know if you live in a Patriarchy or Matriarchy
December 19, 2017 at 12:21 pm
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2017 at 12:22 pm by ErGingerbreadMandude.)
Sooooooo
I am currently learning some world history, geography etc and I had this thought.
It's about gender ratios in the population across the world.
Note: matriarchy means societal structure where women are considered the head, I'm using the term loosely to say "women oriented or women friendly")
So what I thought was countries that are "women oriented" or countries that stress safety of women will naturally have a highest population of women than men. It made sense, you know? Countries that historically stress the safety of women will have higher women population.
I did some Google searches and what I got was not surprising at all. The countries with least women (or gender ratios that favor men more than women) were:
As you can see cultures that focuses more on patriarchal principles had the least women population.
The world population itself is slightly tilted in favor of men but don't be quick to jump to any serious conclusions, the disparity could be caused by many things but it is fair to say in stable developed /developing countries the gender ratios might indicate some root historical culture of it.
Even looking at the whole of a country deriving the cultural historical implications from a simple gender ratio might be too much of a generalization in the whole of it, soooo try to see if you can find the gender ratio of your state or if possible your district, and compare it with the other state/district of your country, it *might* have some implications regarding the historical cultural trends. See if you can post the results as well.
There it is. Back to having love time with geography. (fun facts regarding world geography are appreciated)
I am currently learning some world history, geography etc and I had this thought.
It's about gender ratios in the population across the world.
Note: matriarchy means societal structure where women are considered the head, I'm using the term loosely to say "women oriented or women friendly")
So what I thought was countries that are "women oriented" or countries that stress safety of women will naturally have a highest population of women than men. It made sense, you know? Countries that historically stress the safety of women will have higher women population.
I did some Google searches and what I got was not surprising at all. The countries with least women (or gender ratios that favor men more than women) were:
Quote:
1 United Arab Emirates 26.7
2 Qatar 27.4
3 Oman 33.7
4 Bahrain 38.0
5 Saudi Arabia 43.5
6 Kuwait 43.8
7 Bhutan 46.3
8 India 48.2
9 Malaysia 48.4
10 Afghanistan 48.4
As you can see cultures that focuses more on patriarchal principles had the least women population.
The world population itself is slightly tilted in favor of men but don't be quick to jump to any serious conclusions, the disparity could be caused by many things but it is fair to say in stable developed /developing countries the gender ratios might indicate some root historical culture of it.
Even looking at the whole of a country deriving the cultural historical implications from a simple gender ratio might be too much of a generalization in the whole of it, soooo try to see if you can find the gender ratio of your state or if possible your district, and compare it with the other state/district of your country, it *might* have some implications regarding the historical cultural trends. See if you can post the results as well.
There it is. Back to having love time with geography. (fun facts regarding world geography are appreciated)
