Are Chinese Matrilinear Societies the Inspiration for Chinese Women Pastors?

[Artiste]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090619-fathers-day-2009-no-fathers.html

The above National Geographics article of a few years back delineates an unfamiliar form of family society -- one where women dominate.

Women own property, do business, and rule their families.  Man are around transiently to slip into women's homes at night and father children indiscriminately.  Children have no fathers, only many "uncles".

While this is probably not the mainstream of Chinese society, I am wondering if there may be a bleeding through of female values that generate the phenomenon of the highly vaunted SDA women pastors of China.

What do you think?

[Artiste]

Here is a link to a book available on Amazon that highlights the "Na of China", another matrilineal group.

http://www.amazon.com/Society-without-Fathers-Husbands-China/dp/1890951137

[Artiste]

It is possible that a strong sense of women's dominance runs through the culture of the Chinese.  I haven't heard of any other ethnic groups with this unusual type of families.

In that case, it could very well be a factor in the emergence of the female pastors of China.

(Incidentally, I am not the first one to notice and remark on this possibility.)

[Gregory]

In traditional Korean society, women rule the home.  Men typically give them their paycheck and the female in turn  gives the man an allowance.  From the point on, the man has nothing to say as to how the woman spends the rest of his paycheck.  They invest, purchase property and otherwise spend the money.

[Artiste]

I worked very closely with a Korean physician.

When his wife, who was also a physician, didn't do what he told her to do, he became quite upset.

[Artiste]

In traditional Korean society, women rule the home.  Men typically give them their paycheck and the female in turn  gives the man an allowance.  From the point on, the man has nothing to say as to how the woman spends the rest of his paycheck.  They invest, purchase property and otherwise spend the money.

I also had a friend who was a Korean nurse, married to an American physician, who was very strong on handling househod finances.

She also made it clear by her actions that she looked up to and respected her husband.