Patriarchy is a concept referring to a system of relationships, beliefs, and values embedded in political, social, and economic systems for the unequal relationship between men and women. It’s been over years and years that men have the greater power over women including trans men, patriarchy allows men to have to maintain the position of power, privilege, and leadership in society. Women are in subordinate positions by both structural discrimination and ideologies that legitimate and rationalize that situation. 

Personal: we tend to believe that men are strong than women and always have a role that put for men and women especially in the household when they made us believe that men should be the ones going to work and providing for the house while women sit at home cook, clean and take care of the household with the children since it’s a belief that women are weaker and should not be in the workplace.

Interpersonal: Patriarchy can create conflict among men as well as between men and women. As men jockey for positions at the top of patriarchal hierarchies, some men use violence to offset the shame they feel at not being in a dominant position especially when women have a better position in the workplace, they would feel like women can’t tell them what to do. Women are now forced to work to provide financial stability for their families with also unpaid domestic labor. Although patriarchy literally refers to the rule of the father, it also applies to men’s interactions with other men who are not family members. These changes have implications for shifting patterns of violence within individual relationships and communities.

Institutional: where women have the right to inherit properties and other economic assets, a bunch of practices such as emotional pressure, and social sanctions prevent them from obtaining actual control over them, and some laws diminish the rights of women. All levels of politics are dominated by men, women function within the structure laid down by men. 

cultural/structural: Due to some cultures still believe until now that men should never be equal to women because we are considered weak and have to be obedient. In some households women have no say in how the house should run, even when it is time to cook they tend to ask the men in the house what they should make for dinner or lunch. I still see a lot of cultures that normalize the fact that men should dominate women and that we have to follow their back.