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I thought John Wyndham did a good job with the mostly all-woman cast of The Trouble with Lichen, which discussed feminism and where the female lead character, a biochemist, sought to liberate women. He had strong women characters. I've not read Consider her Ways, but I believe it is about a matriarchy, after all men have died. I also read a biography of him that was most enlightening on his attitude to women. It was by Amy Binns, Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters. Wyndam, like many educated men of his time, saw the lot of married women as rather tragic, especially if they had children, which was a consequence of marriage that was not reliably avoidable. He married his wife very late, in secret because she was a headmistress at a girls' school who would have lost her position had it been known she was married. Until her retirement, I think, they lived in different rooms in a boarding house and always pretended they were just friends. I thought it was a great book. And it was really interesting to realise that my father, who was a scientist, had very similar beliefs about women and children. By the way, I am also a scientist and a writer and I have just written my first scifi book, which has a female evolutionary political scientist who leads a modern tribal reformation using gamers and blockchain against a dictatorship run exclusively for profit by elites who gamble compulsively on the stockmarket. It's called Tribal Code Reformation, by Sheila Newman: https://www.amazon.com.au/TRIBAL-CODE-REVOLUTION-21st-Century-Hollandia/dp/1764656202/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0