Dr. Alice Evans- Ten Thousand Years of Patriarchy

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Equating unfettered freedom and getting a good lot in life in anything close to an absolute sense is very much dubious in the grand scheme of things. This is true for both men and women.

The more a society is described as being "patriarchial", the more women tend to dominate particular spheres, enough to reach effective parity. It's generally fantasy to mark one gender as having noticeably more authority than the other in a culture; it's more about where said gender decides to invest its time and energy. A pair of Japanese comedians on Youtube, in a video, called Japanese wives "house yakuza"; Japanese culture effectively socializes women to be rulers of the home, and housewives are the envy of other women.