Patriarchy In Politics

Sociologist Sylvia Walby (1990) explains overlapping structures that define patriarchy and that take different forms in different cultures and different times: in the state: women are unlikely to have formal power and representation, in terms of violence: women are more prone to being abused; women are likely to be paid less in work.

In Culture: women are more misrepresented in media and popular culture.

In 1973, Goldberg (1973) wrote, "The ethnographic studies of every society that has ever been observed explicitly state that these feelings were present; there is literally no variation at all."Goldberg has critics among anthropologists. Concerning Goldberg’s (1973) claims about the "feelings of both men and women", (Eleanor Leacock countered in 1974) that the data on women's attitudes are "sparse and contradictory", and that the data on male attitudes about male-female relations are "ambiguouse eexplaining that patriarchy evolved due to historical, rather than biological, conditions.

Patriarchy in politics, One of the major problems that persist in the world is that the physical presence of women's voices in positions of power and decision-making within political parties remain weak and almost non-existent. Although women participate actively and visibly support political parties and mobilized by the parties to join as members and for their vote in favor of parties through elections, their participation does not always guarantee inclusion in the decision-making in political parties and / or the public in general decision. Arguably skepticism about women's leadership and decision-making capacity is a common perception among the political parties because social norms dictate that politics is the domain of men.

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... the rights for both sexes but the gender roles are different.

In Conclusion The area of evolutionary psychology offers an explanation for the origin of patriarchy which starts with the view that females almost always invest more energy into producing offspring than males, and therefore in most species females are a limiting factor over which males will compete. It suggests females place the most important preference on males who control more resources which can help her and her offspring, which in turn causes an evolutionary pressure on males to be competitive with each other in order to succeed in gaining resources and power and sexual violence on women as women are unable to defend themselves, and religion plays a role in patriarchy between men and women.

In the next part will explain how women are objectified in the media and how they are seen more as an object.