An article in the SPIEGEL ONLINE tells the story of an Argentinean writer, Ricardo Coler, who decided to find out how a matriarchy really work and spent two months with the Mosuo in southern China. 

“Men live better where women are in charge: you are responsible for almost nothing, you work much less and you spend the whole day with your friends. You’re with a different woman every night. And on top of that, you can always live at your mother’s house.”