Patriarchy is a social system in which men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, and social
privilege. A patriarchal
society consists of a male-dominated power structure throughout organized
society and in individual relationships. Most contemporary societies are, in practice, patriarchal.
Patriarchy is associated with a set of ideas, a patriarchal
ideology that acts to explain and justify this dominance and attributes it to inherent natural differences between men and women.
Feminist theorists have expanded the
definition of patriarchal
society to describe a systemic bias against women, and most feminists saw that
oppression of women
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society.