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From chart-topping K-pop girl groups to strong K-drama female leads, South Korea’s pop culture would lead you to believe it’s a nation that’s on par with the world in terms of economy, entertainment, and gender equality.

at entices fans of all ages to open their wallets in order to obtain pieces of paper with their favourite idol’s selfies, or travel across the world to attend a concert.

You may be familiar with legendary matriarchies like the (now extinct) Amazons, but there’s still a handful of female-led societies still surviving in the real world today that are matrilineal (where ancestral descent is traced through maternal instead of paternal lines) – and interestingly, most of them are in Asia.

th to gender equality has been long and winding, partly because in multicultural Singapore, issues such as racism still clouds the way a lot of people think.