“…the feminist anthropologist Eleanor Leacock’s suggestion [was] that most members of what are called egalitarian societies seem less interested in equality per se than what she calls ‘autonomy’. What matters to Montagnais-Naskapi women, for instance, is not so much whether men and women are seen to be of equal status but whether women are, individually or collectively, able to live their lives and make their own decisions without male interference.”–The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Know Thyself 