Founding Mothers of Kerlile

The Founding Mothers of Kerlile were the ten women who created the Kerlian state, and formed the first Council of Kerlile. Each woman ruled over a specific region of Kerlile between 1924 and 1934, and then sat upon the inaugural Council of Kerlile to establish centralised rule in the Matriarchy from 1934 onwards. Only female descendants of these Founders are permitted to sit on the Council of Kerlile. The title Daughter of the Council is given to women who are descendants of the Founders through an unbroken female-only line.

List

• Nancy Arnott
• Yijun Chiu
• Phoebe Georgiou
• Wilma Greenwood
• Camila Letitia Hale
• Edith Hart
• Sunita Patel
• Marilène Pierre
• Margaret Robinson
• Martina Viallamando

Legacy

The Founders are still regularly referenced in Kerlile, with formal role-call at the Council of Kerlile including a reference to each Councillor's Founder ancestor. Each current Councillor is either a granddaughter, great-granddaughter, or great-great-granddaughter of a Founder. Both proponents and opponents of Gynarchism cite the Founding Mothers in ideological debates, with gynarchists praising the founding of a matriarchal state and opponents pointing to the Founders Manifesto which states that female-only rule was designed to be a temporary state of affairs.