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The tribe's 14 male headmen sat in a row of chairs carried in by women. Male villagers dominated the discussion. Women hung in the back, silent save for a few. Until not too long ago, they were not even allowed in the kgotla, except by invitation.

But the agenda was set by Chief Seboko, who sat flanked by her uncle and two male cousins. The conclusions were hers, too.

One elderly man told her she was always defending women while women invited sexual advances by wearing skintight jeans. "If you see a watermelon, and you are hungry, what are you going to do?" he demanded. "When a man sees this, he asks: 'How much?' "

"I am not defending women," the chief said. "I am angry at women," she said, for failing to exert more control over their own circumstances.

She didn't add, but could have, "As I did."

Female Are Dominant Sex, Primate Study Suggests

James Owen in England for National Geographic News

November 25, 2003

Feminists might be surprised to hear it, but females are the dominant sex in most primate communities. Far from being passive bystanders in a world governed by machismo, a new study suggests females may determine social evolution in primates.