 While women could inherit manors, power was usually exercised by their husbands ("jure uxoris") or their sons ("jure matris").Absolute primogeniture is a law in which the eldest child of the sovereign succeeds to the throne, regardless of gender, and females (and their descendants) enjoy the same right of succession as males.This is currently the system in Sweden (since 1980), the Netherlands (since 1983), Norway (since 1990), Belgium (since 1991), Denmark (since 2009), 
Luxembourg (since 2011), and in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realms (since 2013).