Patriarchal
adjective
Relating to a system where men hold the power and women are mostly excluded.
In many traditional societies, families are organized in a patriarchal structure.
Often appears as...
- patriarchal society
- patriarchal system
adjective
Relating to or characteristic of a man who is the head of a family or group.
His patriarchal manner was sometimes intimidating to younger employees.
Often appears as...
- patriarchal authority
- patriarchal figure
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Disapproving
adjective
Relating to a system in some churches in which bishops or priests are in authority.
Eastern Orthodox Churches have a patriarchal hierarchy.
Often appears as...
- patriarchal structure
- patriarchal church
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Technical
adjective
Relating to a system where men hold the power and women are mostly excluded.
In many traditional societies, families are organized in a patriarchal structure.
Often appears as...
- patriarchal society
- patriarchal system
adjective
Relating to or characteristic of a man who is the head of a family or group.
His patriarchal manner was sometimes intimidating to younger employees.
Often appears as...
- patriarchal authority
- patriarchal figure
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Relating to a system in some churches in which bishops or priests are in authority.
Eastern Orthodox Churches have a patriarchal hierarchy.
Often appears as...
- patriarchal structure
- patriarchal church
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Gender Power Dynamics
Understand 'patriarchal' as describing situations where gender impacts who controls decisions or influence.
The CEO's patriarchal leadership sidelined female executives from major decisions.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Shifts
'Patriarchal' can imply outdated views in modern contexts, signaling a need for more equality.
The patriarchal policies at the workplace sparked public demand for reforms.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
'Patriarchal' often carries a critical tone, especially in discussions about social change and gender equality.
Activists are pushing back against the company's patriarchal culture.
Pro Tip 1/3Gender Power Dynamics
Understand 'patriarchal' as describing situations where gender impacts who controls decisions or influence.
The CEO's patriarchal leadership sidelined female executives from major decisions.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Shifts
'Patriarchal' can imply outdated views in modern contexts, signaling a need for more equality.
The patriarchal policies at the workplace sparked public demand for reforms.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
'Patriarchal' often carries a critical tone, especially in discussions about social change and gender equality.
Activists are pushing back against the company's patriarchal culture.
Pro Tip 1/3Gender Power Dynamics
Understand 'patriarchal' as describing situations where gender impacts who controls decisions or influence.
The CEO's patriarchal leadership sidelined female executives from major decisions.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Shifts
'Patriarchal' can imply outdated views in modern contexts, signaling a need for more equality.
The patriarchal policies at the workplace sparked public demand for reforms.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
'Patriarchal' often carries a critical tone, especially in discussions about social change and gender equality.
Activists are pushing back against the company's patriarchal culture.
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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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This Is What LGBT Life...
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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Emily Nagoski and Amelia...
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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Sophie Williams: The...
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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Isabel Allende: Tales of...
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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The Real Amazons PIPE...
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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Jared Diamond: Lessons...
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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Tales of passion -...
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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Why Africa Needs...
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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My Daughter, Malala PIPE...
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
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3 lessons on success...
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
Video examples
This Is What LGBT Life...
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,
Video examples
Emily Nagoski and Amelia...
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
Video examples
Sophie Williams: The...
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,
Video examples
Isabel Allende: Tales of...
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.
Video examples
The Real Amazons PIPE...
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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Jared Diamond: Lessons...
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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Tales of passion -...
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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Why Africa Needs...
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.
Video examples
My Daughter, Malala PIPE...
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
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Thandie Newton
British Actress
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.
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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.
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Kalki Koechlin
French Actress
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.
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Stella Young
Australian Comedian
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.
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Pollyanna McIntosh
Scottish Wrestler
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.
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Audre Lorde
American Poet
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.
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bell hooks
American Critic
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.
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Shirin Ebadi
Iranian Lawyer
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.
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Bhumi Pednekar
Indian Actress
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.
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Warren Farrell
American Writer
Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
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Thandie Newton
British Actress
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.
Quote examples
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.
Quote examples
Kalki Koechlin
French Actress
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.
Quote examples
Stella Young
Australian Comedian
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.
Quote examples
Pollyanna McIntosh
Scottish Wrestler
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.
Quote examples
Audre Lorde
American Poet
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.
Quote examples
bell hooks
American Critic
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.
Quote examples
Shirin Ebadi
Iranian Lawyer
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.
Quote examples
Bhumi Pednekar
Indian Actress
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.
Quote examples
Warren Farrell
American Writer
Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
Example 1 of 10
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