Women rule
Published:Monday | January 23, 2012 | 12:00 AM
In the small Indian state of Meghalaya, a matrilineal exists. Property is passed from mother to daughter as is surname.
A small group of men since the 1960s have been lobbying for change. Keith Pariat is the president of Syngkhong-Rympei-Thymmai, Meghalaya's very own men's rights movement. He tells the BBC's Timothy Allen that they do not want to bring down women, but to bring the men up to where the women are.
He says at the labour wards at the hospitals if a girl is born there is cheering, but if it's a boy, "you will hear them mutter ... 'Whatever God gives us is quite all right'." He notes that in their culture when something becomes useful it takes on the feminine gender.
Women inherit the house, so when they get married the men live with her and her family.
It seems there is so much more we have to learn about this world we live in.