Magical Matriarchies [Fantasy]

[talonthehand]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

I mean that magical society is a matriarchy. Of course, the larger society could diverge.

It's entirely possible magical society would be a matriarchy, but not a certainty. There are times in the real world where a small minority has dominated over a large majority (apartheid in south africa for instance) - quantity of people isn't a guarantee of having power.

If the female mages have more potent magic, or if schools for teaching magic are preferential towards women, then they could certainly form a matriarchy. Or if male mages are a new thing - maybe there's something in the y-chromosome that prevented the development of magery, and there's only recently (say, past several generations) been a mutation that's removed that. Then the mage-matriarchy would be the only thing the society has ever known.