To me the'female principle' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power Lehmann-Haupt structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

-Le Guin, Ursula ne¤  e Kroeber
'Is Gender Necessary?', in  Anderson and McIntyre (eds)  Aurora (1976).