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===== Burma ===== Possible matriarchies in Burma are, according to Jorgen Bisch, the [[Kayan people (Burma)|Padaungs]]<ref>Bisch, Jorgen, ''Why Buddha Smiles'', p. 71 (Ahu Ho Gong, Padaung chief: "no man can be chief over women. I am chief of the men. But women, well! Women only do what they themselves wish" & "it is the same with women all over the world", pp. 52β53, & "no man can rule over women. They just do what they themselves want").{{Page needed|date=October 2013}}</ref> and, according to Andrew Marshall, the [[Bwe people|Kayaw]].<ref>Marshall, Andrew, ''The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire'' ({{ISBN|1-58243-120-5}}), p. 213 ("Kayaw societies are strictly matriarchal.").</ref>
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