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Matriarcal Women
Eastenders has several strong matriarchal women that the female audience can relate to as being powerful women and plys with the idea of women being strong but ultiamtely being controlled by men.
Peggy Mitchell is land lady of the Queen Vic and is a strong mother figure and bosses around the weedier men in her family (Billy). However Phill Mitchell (her son) owns the deeds to the pub so has the ultiamte power to sell the pub from underneath her as he already has done and threatened to do this week. In this weeks story line Peggy was made out to be a strong woman but this was soon deflated as a drunk Phill threatened to sell the pub for £5 and Peggy was shown as a weak character that is below an alcoholic.
Pat Evans is another Matriarcal woman in Eastenders she owns Pats cars and also has a large family that she takes care of. However her ownership of the taxi firm is often threatened by characters like Janine Butcher (her own family) and Jack Branning now has it. Frank Butcher and other men in her life have always had a hold over her and make her less powerful when she has a man in her life.
Both of these women become less powerful when they are with men as they trust them and give some of their power and responsibility to them. The men are normally manipulating and end up taking away from them everything that makes them powerful (e.g. When Archie Mitchell takes the pub away from Peggy Mitchell).

Hollyoaks doesn't have as strong matriarchal women (this could be because it isn't as old, started in 1995, Eastenders - 1985). Women like Frankie Osborne, Nana McQueen and Myra McQueen are matriarchal within the family, but there are no obvious women like in Eastenders. Frankie did joint own the pub with Jack Osborne and was a strong land lady but her husbands fraud led to her loss in the pub and status. She was never as strong as Peggy in Eastenders. Nana McQueen is seen as a matriarchal woman in the McQueen family but she is only spoke about and rarely seen in eastenders. I think Myra McQueen is the strongest woman in Hollyoaks but only within her family. She is unsuccesful with money and doesn't have a job (live in a council house) but she is a singel parent who looks after her large family. All of her children, neices and some of her children's friends ask her for advice.