MAGAZINE

By Paul Ng When you watch a film, music helps convey the underlying emotions of a scene. Picture the...

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.

th to gender equality has been long and winding, partly because in multicultural Singapore, issues such as racism still clouds the way a lot of people think.

By Ashley Ow Have you or someone you know recently bought or sold something on Carousell? How often do...