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By Ashley Ow From Atome to Hoolah and OctiFi, there’s now a slew of ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ services...

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.

It’s not uncommon to hear that once women identify themselves as “feminists,” they’d almost always be labelled a “man hater” or even “feminazi.” Perhaps this stems from the problem that many of us still haven’t grasped the true meaning of being a “feminist”. 

From the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard case to incels committing violence, it's troubling that gender issues still cloud our everyday life. Our Gender...