Indira Gandhi is a power. Being female or male has nothing to do with it. In one species, the female are the rulers. In another, it is the males. It really does not matter which sex predominates.

The point is that this overriding control is ever-present. One has to live with it. It may be considered that nature itself promotes over-population. Then nature itself cuts the living beings down. 

It rains to promote sprouting. Then it dries rapidly to kill most of the sprouts. That is nature's callousness at work.