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In older times, even up until the women's suffrage movement of the 19th and 20th centuries, women were considered inferior to men by most people who lived in patriarchal societies. Their job in those days was to simply keep the house tidy and care for the kids; the men's job was to keep a job to support the family and to defend the family from harm. Leadership roles weren't a huge part of housework or raising families.

However, this isn't the case for all societies. Many Native American cultures, on the contrary, were matriarchal societies, meaning that the women had more political power than men did.

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