However, the problem turns out to be that matriarchy does not look at all like patriarchy at all.

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Colombian society, one of old-fashioned machismo, may have to come to terms with an increasing trend toward matriarchy.

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But she was right that the new matriarchy would not survive her.

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The social irony of the writing is non-too-subtle but the point is that in the writers vision, matriarchy is merely patriarchy with women in the place of men.

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The meritocracy is inexorably turning into a matriarchy, and visibly so on many campuses: the heads of Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Brown and the National Defence University are all women.

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