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    Patriarchy is a social system defined by male dominance and authority over political leadership, moral authority, social privilege, and property control. It views gender differences as natural and exists to justify male dominance. While patriarchy is a social construct, it has led to legal inequities, traditions and religions that disadvantage women throughout history by viewing them as physically and mentally weaker. Though things are improving for women's rights, patriarchy still maintains male supremacy and women's subordination and dependency on men in all aspects of life by keeping power and authority exclusively in male hands. Patriarchy affects not only men but also exists as a system internalized by both men and women through shared patriarchal values and biases.

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    Patriarchy is a social system defined by male dominance and authority over political leadership, moral authority, social privilege, and property control. It views gender differences as natural and exists to justify male dominance. While patriarchy is a social construct, it has led to legal inequities, traditions and religions that disadvantage women throughout history by viewing them as physically and mentally weaker. Though things are improving for women's rights, patriarchy still maintains male supremacy and women's subordination and dependency on men in all aspects of life by keeping power and authority exclusively in male hands. Patriarchy affects not only men but also exists as a system internalized by both men and women through shared patriarchal values and biases.

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    Leigh Jhan Ochoa

    BSAIS – 2B

    Midterm Examination
    Gender and Society

    What is patriarchy?

    Patriarchy is a social system in which men have primary power and predominate in roles such as political leadership,
    moral authority, social privilege, and property control. Some patriarchal societies are also patrilineal, which means that
    property and title are passed down through the male lineage. Patriarchy is connected with a set of concepts, a
    patriarchal ideology, which serves to explain and justify this dominance and links it to the underlying natural inequalities
    between men and women. Sociologists view patriarchy as a social construct rather than an inherent difference between
    the sexes, and they focus on how gender males in a culture effect power differentials between men and women.
    “Patriarchy is an unnatural state." Many reasons have contributed to women's inequity and hierarchical administrations
    controlled by men throughout history. Because there were many patriarchal societies throughout history, legal
    inequities, traditions, and religions were imposed on women based on the idea that women are biologically weaker than
    men physically and mentally.

    Patriarchy is a social structure in which males are the dominant authority figures in families and society. Due to
    patriarchy, females have been disadvantaged in many sectors of life including job, family life, crime, health, education
    and media. This has prompted sociologists to investigate the reasons of gender disparity. Feminists would agree that
    patriarchy is the primary source of gender inequality; nevertheless, there are distinct strands of feminism, and these
    strands have diverse perspectives. Other theories, such as functionalists and postmodernists, have various perspectives
    on the reasons of gender disparity. There is much evidence to show that things have changed to benefit women, for
    example, domestic violence is now taken seriously by the police, men are increasingly taking on the primary care role,
    labor laws make gender discrimination illegal, rape within the marriage is now a crime and women are also doing better
    in education than men.

    Patriarchy, which assumes male supremacy over females, shamelessly maintains women's dependency on and
    subordination to man in all aspects of life. As a result, all power and authority within the family, community, and state
    remain exclusively in the hands of males. As a result of patriarchy, women were denied their legal rights and
    possibilities. Patriarchal ideals limit women's mobility and deny their independence over themselves and their
    possessions. Regardless matter the amount of dominance, the general concepts remain the same, since males are in
    power. This control's nature may vary. So, in order to fight for women's development in a systematic manner, it is vital
    to comprehend the system that maintains women controlled and submissive, as well as to uncover its workings.
    Patriarchy does not exist only in men. The force of patriarchy is the water that we all swim in and we’re the fish. Women
    can be just a patriarchal as men by holding those same types of values and biases.

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