How Patriarchy subjugate Women to Inferior Positions?

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How Patriarchy subjugate Women to Inferior Positions
Introduction
The traditional form of gender discrimination affirms that gender biasness is not an unfortunate occurrence but methodically rooted in cultural and societal perspective. This aspect is also reinforced by Patriarch. Patriarch concerns itself on power struggles between male and female gender or between the opposite genders. It is a system used to distinguish between class, gender, race, and heterosexual privileges structured in the society. This system majorly relies on violence, or laws that discriminate women to propagate inequality. The essence of Patriarchal beliefs of men lies in the use of violence to suppress women. Although Patriarchy may not necessarily be abusive, it is a structural force that influences power relations between men and women.
In most cases, customs and traditions are used in justifying gender discrimination through archaic cultural philosophies on gender relation. Most cultures defend patriarchy although the manifestation may differ from one culture to another. The main element for patriarchy is power. However, the problem occurs when it is conflated with abuse, masculinity or male chauvinism. There is need for a systematic analysis on how to define real power and the systems used to do the same. Feminism, which is concerned with women claiming their rights to self-autonomy and gender equality fights for gender conformity and to substitute the correlation of power with a meaningful relation. In our discussion on how patriarchy subjugates women to inferior position, we will employ the virtue ethics theory to make us understand on why women should be given fair treatments in all situations.
Virtue Ethics Theory
Being one of the important approaches to normative in ethics, virtue ethics emphasises, moral characters and values away from the deontology approach which stresses on rules or duties or that that emphasises the outcome of actions. For instance, it may chance that one needs urgent help. One who applies utilitarian principle could explain that doing so will make the other’s life better. A deontologist on the other hand would act on the essence of following moral obligations. A virtue ethicist in this case will do so on the assumption that the act done comes of compassion or benevolence (Glenn, 2011, p191–207).
In applying moral ethics in our day today activities, the moral status of the other being should be taken into consideration. We must recognise that the other beings too have rights and interests which are the same as ours. Hence, how we treat others rights should be a reflection on how we wanted ours to be taken care of. In other words, “Do unto others as you would want to be done by others”.
Patriarchy in Goldenberg’s Perspective
In her book, “Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions” Naomi Goldenb...