The small island of Kihnu in the Baltic sea is a unique, centuries-old society where women do most of the jobs on land: from farming to lighthouse keeping, leading church services and even dressing up as Santa at Christmas, while the men are away at sea fishing. The men of Kihnu island, six miles off the coast of Estonia, are away at sea fishing for weeks or months at a time, leaving the women to run what is often dubbed one of the last matriarchal societies in Europe. Steeped in ...