Thandie Newton

I guess patriarchal stereotypes have, as is true for most people, created painful moments in my life. As a result, I'm an activist. I'm for women's rights, children's rights, human rights, animal rights. I want to be part of the solutions to try to correct imbalance. And 'Westworld,' for me, is that.

British Actress

Ncuti Gatwa

The world has been set up in such a way that we don't even realise how ingrained certain things are, like how much we live in a patriarchal society or how institutional racism is ingrained in how we see the world. We don't realise how many things are being set in stone, in our heads.

Kalki Koechlin

It's only that we live in a patriarchal society, and therefore, the word 'feminism' has to be used as a counter to patriarchy. But feminism is about being equal. The word used should be 'equalist,' as it is about all humans being equal and respecting each other for that.

French Actress

Stella Young

I, like many women, buy into patriarchal standards of beauty every day. I very rarely leave the house without make-up. I dye my hair. I wear clothes that I choose carefully for how they make me look to the outside world.

Australian Comedian

Pollyanna McIntosh

We live in a very masculine society, a very patriarchal society, still. So we also have the benefit of the experience of that society. We're not coming from 'women's world' into filmmaking, we're coming from 'the world.

Scottish Wrestler

Audre Lorde

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

American Poet

bell hooks

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

American Critic

Shirin Ebadi

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

Iranian Lawyer

Bhumi Pednekar

Cinema has the power to change the society. Through my films, the kind of characters I have played and will play, I am trying to do my bit in changing the patriarchal mindset.

Indian Actress

Warren Farrell

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

American Writer

Understand 'patriarchal' as describing situations where gender impacts who controls decisions or influence.

Gender Power Dynamics

'Patriarchal' can imply outdated views in modern contexts, signaling a need for more equality.

Historical Shifts

'Patriarchal' often carries a critical tone, especially in discussions about social change and gender equality.

Negative Connotation

'Patriarchal' pertains to a family leader, often suggesting tradition and authority.

Family Leader

Describes someone's dominant behavior, like the eldest male figure taking charge.

Authority Figure

The term 'patriarchal' can signal respect for the family head's responsibility and guidance.

Respect and Responsibility

'Patriarchal' in religion means a system where certain men lead the organization.

Religious Hierarchy

Specifies where religious figures like bishops exercise control and leadership.

Clerical Authority

Implies established, long-held beliefs and structures in a faith community.

Religious Tradition

 have not fallen for this psychological trap. Faced with a patriarchal society, they have found that by helping each other out, all benefit. In my previous job, I was the most senior woman in the Middle East, so one could think that investing in my network of female colleagues couldn't bring many benefits

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 without a tradition of homophobia. On the other hand, it is also a society with a deeply patriarchal system, which rejects anything that threatens the male-female order. When we spoke to activists, they told us that empowerment begins with ensuring proper gender equality,

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 that are trapped in this sort of, like, industrial, super patriarchal, rabidly individualistic mindset, where you just need to protect yourself against the toxic culture by creating a bubble of love at home, where everyone in your household cares for your well-being

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 Why are businesses that are in trouble more likely to appoint an underrepresented leader? Well, it could be that, in patriarchal societies, women are viewed as caregivers, as nurturers, and so research has shown that when a business is in trouble,

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 there's no need for that. I look around, and I see them everywhere. I have worked with women and for women all my life. I know them well. I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family.

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 so-called barbarians almost like they were creating a thrilling alternate universe i think the myths also offered a kind of safe way for ancient greeks to sort of escape their male dominated patriarchal culture and rise above

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 reasons for variation and treatment of the elderly is the Society's cultural values cultural values that info sighs respect for all the people such as filial piety and patriarchal families contrasts with the low status of the

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 need for that I look around and I see them everywhere I have worked with women and for women all my life I know them well I was born in ancient times at the end of the world they patriarchal Catholic and

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 And donkeys became zebras, and camels became giraffes. And that's how the wildlife of the world came to be. So these women took this myth and they said, "We are turning this patriarchal myth on its head.

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 So this brother, he sacrifices the joys of his life and the happiness of his sisters at the altar of so-called honor. And there is one more norm of the patriarchal societies

Patriarchal

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