Women Rule On The Greek Island Of Karpathos
“Here it is women who command!” declared Rigopoula Pavlidis, as she sang the virtues of her remote village on the island of Karpathos, one of Greece’s rare matriarchal societies. Sitting at a desk across the room painting religious icons, her husband Giannis nodded silently. “My husband can’t do anything without me, not even his tax return,”…