Male refugees, stripped of their traditional patriarchal power and roles, sometimes become violent toward their partners.

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Feminist activists say that the comments encapsulate the problems of Georgia s patriarchal society.

They fear, with reason, that extending freedoms and developing individual autonomy within the family and so weakening patriarchal authority could lead to a questioning in the public arena of the ideological basis of state power.

Over several decades, South Korea built one of the most patriarchal societies we know about.

The social structure in Vanuatu is principally patriarchal featuring men as administrators of the societies.

In a patriarchal society like Macedonia s, it is already much harder for a woman to attain professional success.

Demonstrators' main message addressed the country's political parties, demanding urgent action against murders resulting from patriarchal violence ( violencia machista ).

She says not growing up in a typical patriarchal family had a great impact on her work and writing.

A whole range of patriarchal laws and institutions tell us what to do in the guise of keeping us safe.

The reason is stated that women, burdened with patriarchal upbringing, have a distorted image of violence and even tolerate it.

Furthermore, patriarchal biases prevailing in the legal provisions and criminal justice system prevent women from accessing justice and escaping violence.

Whenever legal, religious, economic and political systems are patriarchal (i.e. favor men over women), women's rights and human dignity are compromised.

Lebanon was to a large extent a patriarchal society, with families spending money on the education of boys rather than girls.

Both agreed that reform must be slow, cautious and that it must never undermine established institutions, especially religion and the patriarchal family.

All change reflects local compromises with tradition and with patriarchal laws, and different rates of adjustment between old and new ways of life.

Europeans at that time had patriarchal cultures and had developed concepts of individual property rights with respect to land that were extremely different.

In Nicaragua, for example, domestic violence is so entrenched in the patriarchal culture it is referred to as the cross women must carry .

Measures have been adopted to change the existing patriarchal gender system in Estonia and to reduce indirect discrimination against women in work life.

These crimes are a manifestation of culturally inherited values that impose upon women socially expected behaviours derived from prevailing patriarchal norms and standards.

There is a consensus among analysts that the deepening of the conflict in the OPT and the expansion of the tools of occupation has weakened the negotiating power of Palestinian women to challenge the patriarchal gender contract which has, in part, become a defence mechanism to keep the society intact.

How do these ideas apply to the Moroccan context? Firstly, it's hard to argue with the assertion that Arab states, Morocco included, are patriarchal.

But the heart of the matter is the preservation of ancient patriarchal rights that go back to Biblical times, reformatted to fit the demands of globalized capitalism.

The result is widespread invocation by governments of religious norms, and to a lesser extent references to tradition, in order to legitimize the continuation of patriarchal rule.

Even at a moment like this, when feminists can take pride in the broad support displayed for the protest against patriarchal violence, the mood is hardly celebratory.

Our neighborhood was full of large families, where fathers were the heads of households, so I grew up seeing my mother as a divorcee in a patriarchal environment.

Thus, an integrated system of violence, intersecting with violence inherent in patriarchal gender relations, has become institutionalized, which cuts across all spheres of women's lives in the OPT.

It is also concerned about the prevalence of structural patriarchal attitudes and deep rooted stereotypes that may undermine the effectiveness of the Code and prevent compliance with its provisions.

Unless the Women's Bureau found a new approach, it would meet with the same resistance from indigenous peoples that the patriarchal approach had met with for over 500 years.

She pointed out that the Irish Parliament itself had remarked on the male oriented thrust of the Constitution, stating, inter alia, that it was a product of patriarchal times.

In a sense, as well articulated by Nahla Abdo, Palestinian women are placed in a double jeopardy, having to face both the patriarchal national self' and the foreign oppressive other' .

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It is in a club where we let our hair down, freed of the ideological and patriarchal corset that dictates each and every allowed movement and expression according to the genitals.

The sociological imperative behind the spread of political correctness is the fact that we no longer live in patriarchal, hierarchical, mono cultural societies, which exhibit general, if unreflective, agreement on basic values.

The failure to perform in accordance with the requirements of traditional patriarchal society is said to result in increased frustration on the men's part, which often leads to violence in the home.

the current patriarchal system is changed through educating boys and men that gender inequalities are an abuse of human rights and through mobilising boys and men to advance women's rights and gender justice

Widows, 67 per cent of whom are aged between 18 30 years, told me that, even as wives of martyrs with an enhanced status, they are never free in a conservative patriarchal community.

Women are increasingly making the argument that they have been deliberately excluded from a full role in society not because Islam prescribes it, but because Islam was revealed in a deeply patriarchal social context.

Apart from economic reasons for migration, which are of primary importance, women and in particular young single women, also migrate in order to escape the hardship of rural life and patriarchal and social control.

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But something imposes a restriction on them their patriarchal milieu. Some might be tempted to argue that things are a lot better for girls in an urban or megacity environment. But is it really so?

And in places where you wouldn't think, such as South Korea, India and China, the very strict patriarchal societies are starting to break down a little, and families are no longer strongly preferring first born sons.

The patriarchal notions of what is and isn t acceptable are so embedded in our psyches that women get to the point where we actually believe and even defend the idea that we are truly exercising choice.

Address the root causes of female infanticide and foeticide that has lead to the death of millions of girls and implement policies and measures that rectify the low status of women and girls in patriarchal societies

Two types of power shifts are occurring in this century power transition and power diffusion.