Patriarchy Effects on Society
Patriarchy, according to Keith (2017), is a social structure where women are controlled by men because they hold the power of financial superiority over women. Patriarchy has become a way to live in many societies around the globe. The idea of ‘putting men as the leader of human race’ is seen as something that everyone should agree on. This social notion has triggered disagreement from many social groups for the past decades. Men superiority has influenced the way the world ‘works’, moreover, how the life of women get negative impacts of it. It leads to men’s domination, the violation of women’s right, and the spread of masculinity. The first effect of patriarchy is its significant supremacy on men’s role on society. It allows men to dominate almost every field of works. The stigma believed by society that men can do better than women because men rely more on logic rather than emotions women psychologically believed are more rely on to has become so-called ‘universal truth’. This l...