 Gender, status, and power in Iron-Age Europe, archeological analysis of burial shows some women were honorary males as they were buried with both socio-economic as well as military symbols of power.In "Queen Elizabeth I and the Persistence of Patriarchy", Allison Heisch describes honorary males as women who accept the values and practices of the male society in which they function, and internalize and follow them.She notes that honorary males tend to support rather than subvert patriarchal governance, and cites as an example Queen Elizabeth I, whose reign had little to no impact on the status of women in England.