So I suggested that it’d be like using a beard sign to represent men. To which he responded, without irony or sarcasm,

Identify as a feminist, and educate people that feminism simply means equal rights for all genders not “hating men” or less rights for menPatrilocality means that a new bride must leave her family and move into her husband’s household, usually with or near his family (think of Elizabeth Bennet moving from Longbourn to Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice). In many societies in Asia and Africa, wives are still expected to reside with their in-laws and obey their authority.

The reason why parents impose patriarchy at homes is that they too have been oppressed by it. They inherited it from their parents to raise the boys and girls differently. Until your parents identify the ways patriarchy has dictated their lives, they cannot understand why there is a need to bring a change. Ask your mother if she had some dreams that remained unfulfilled and why was so? Was it because her parents didn't allow? Or her in-laws restricted her? Why didn't she speak up? Would she want her daughter to remain silent like she (mother) was expected to? Not only mothers but know about father's life also and help them understand that patriarchy is not a norm; it is an enforced ideology based power relations. And we as free humans have the right to have our own plans. At most times, the father would be wearing a tie and shirt, and carrying a suitcase while the mother would be portrayed in a frumpy saree with a pressure-cooker in the kitchen.

6. Support Women, Trans And Non-Binary People’s Careers

To smash patriarchy at home, it is very important to get rid of the taboos it has imposed. We need to normalise sex and period talks at home, which has been wrapped in taboos to restrict women. The process of dismantling taboos around period and sex should start from home otherwise people internalise them in their upbringing and carry forward to the next generations. And it shouldn't be done only among mothers and daughters. Fathers, husbands and brothers should be equally involved in it. As we know, the idea of a nuclear family does not really exist in modern western society. There is no clear mould for a family consisting of a father, mother and children anymore. So, the principle of men being the head of the family no longer really exists for our generation in the same way as previously. Create your own definition of success that isn’t tied to productivity or the number of zeros in your income, it’s instead based on your happiness and life goals Article 5(a) obligates states to eliminate negative gender stereotypes which foster discrimination against women. This article is an important pillar to the Convention itself because it implies structural change is necessary, rather than simply altering the law. Additionally, “patriarchal” is used alongside “ harmful traditional practices”. Although examples differ depending on the state under observation, harmful traditional practice is used in reference to some of the following: FGM, so-called honour killings, sexual initiation practices, abduction of girls, early and forced marriage, polygamy, widow inheritance, son preference, and violence against womengenerally. Conflating “patriarchal attitudes” with “harmful traditional practices” means that patriarchy is being interpreted in a specific way: my analysis of the CEDAW Committee statements suggests that patriarchy is associated with so-called traditional beliefs or practices including, amongst other things, FGM, sexual initiation practices, early and forced marriage, polygamy, son preference, and violence against women. It could be argued that these practices are being utilised as direct indicators of patriarchy. After all, these practices are incredibly harmful to women and are overt examples of oppression.

Why Does Patriarchy Persist? Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider (or anything by Carol Gilligan, really).

The patriarchy hurts us all, regardless of where we stand on the spectrum of gender. Some suffer because violence towards them is externalised, such as women, trans, and non-binary people. Some suffer because violence they direct towards others is also internalised, meaning men. Call and write your political representatives to let them know what you want and how you want them to represent your needs Dont’ be turned off by the title. This is not a book about *how* to take down the patriarchy, but rather a book about the history of how others have tried to circumvent the patriarchy. This is not so much a *how to* book, but *how it was* and *how it could be*. Even at this point in the year, when pressure on the hard surface playground had been relieved some, girls were not allowed to play netball on the netball court outside of the official netball club run by the teachers.

Utilizing film to tell these stories associated within the movement of feminism, while deconstructing layers of the long-standing and problematic patriarchy, is more important than ever before. What these films do is spark important conversations around the social status of women in modern day society, while questioning the traditional notions of what female sexuality and femininity should look like (not all women wear short skirts and heels, by the way). If you'd like to see some films that accurately disassemble the authority, influence, and leadership of males in society (because guys should absolutely not tell us what to do), we've created a list consisting of the best films where women prevailed in challenging the status quo. Some days, especially in Women's History Month you want so smash the patriarchy a little harder than others; these movies show women who have. Signs are difficult to create to be simple and effective (easily understood), and this one, created around 1924, but not popularized until 1960/1970s as the standard ‘female’ pictogram, is still the standard used across most of Europe, Asia and The Americas. The concept of “patriarchy” has been both a call to action and an analytical tool for feminist understandings of women’s place in the world as we know it. Over the past 100 years, feminist activists have made signs , worn on their chests, or loudly exclaimed the mantra: “smash the patriarchy”. In this article Cassandra Mudgwaypresents analysis on how patriarchy is used in international law and by treaty monitoring bodies, cautioning against limiting the scope and meaning of patriarchy by only associating it with some beliefs and practices and not also seeing it as a system of power.Yes, that is so true. I feel like I've had so much therapy, just working on my own shit, because I'm going to project it onto everybody else that works for me. Too many women, with higher degrees and years of work experience, simply give up because it is so hard to “have it all.” Of those parents who did not work outside of the home in the United States in 2016, 78 percent of mothers reported they didn’t work because they were taking care of their home and family. For women, who generally earn less than men and who societies expect to provide more unpaid care work, it makes rational sense in economies with few social safety nets to embrace what social scientists call “hypergamy,” or the desire to marry up and find a partner who can and will support them. This practice reinforces the traditions of patrilineality and patrilocality because the man remains the “head of household.” And even in couples where wives earn more than their husbands, women still bear a disproportionately larger share of household tasks, which is why so many pine for new domestic arrangements. There was also Queen Charlotte of Sweden, who gave up the crown rather then have to marry, and went around dressed in masculine clothes. According to a variety of high-profile figures (mainly male, mainly psychologists), bolstered by professorships and no shortage of disciples, there are important biological reasons for why men and women have different roles and status in our society. Steven Pinker, for instance, has argued that men prefer to work with “things”, whereas women prefer to work with “people”. This, he said, explains why more women work in the (low-paid) charity and healthcare sector, rather than getting PhDs in science. According to Pinker, “The occupation that fits best with the ‘people’ end of the continuum is director of a community services organisation. The occupations that fit best with the ‘things’ end are physicist, chemist, mathematician, computer programmer, and biologist.” Whether someone has skills for maths, leadership or any gendered attribute can not be predicted from knowing their sex