The "Standard Cross Cultural Sample" is a large collection of data about ~180 societies across the world. The list of variables covered, broken down into catego

The "Standard Cross Cultural Sample" is a large collection of data about ~180 societies across the world. The list of variables covered, broken down into categories, includes several related gender and division of labor: http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/courses/stdsvars.html http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/courses/stdsvars.html There is a website for browsing the data. Looks a little challenging to use: http://socscicompute.ss.uci.edu/ http://socscicompute.ss.uci.edu/ After describing some of the early research and theorizing about matriarchies, the Encyclpaedia Britannica states: "The consensus among modern anthropologists and sociologists is that while many cultures bestow power preferentially on one sex or the other, matriarchal societies in this original, evolutionary sense have never existed."