Patriarchy Is Unnatural Research Paper

“Patriarchy is unnatural”

Throughout history we see many factors that lead to the inequality of woman and to hierarchal governments dominated by men. Because there were many patriarchal society’s in history; legal inequalities, customs and religions were passed down through historical periods that imposed upon women based on the fact that women are biologically weaker than men physically and mentally. During the 1800s the theory that the weaker sex should be subordinate politically and socially to the stronger sex was quite common. This lead many to question whether patriarchy is inevitable biologically due to the fact that it favors men physically, or whether it is unnatural because it forms discriminations

in mills opposes the belief that patriarchy is natural. He argues that it is unnatural because women did not want to be subordinate objects to men. They wanted to hold jobs , be educated and own property and have the same opportunities as their male counterparts , but they couldn’t ;they were forced to be complaint to the universal system of inequality that patriarchy laws enforce . This system regulated political and social relations between male and females. Men took the notion of physically inequality and used it as a physical fact to justify the legal right to hold power in monarchies. Because men held more power throughout history it was easier for men to make laws since they were already in power. this lead to women men being subjected and being thought to be dependent , obedient and socially and politically limited by legal social constructs created by men .Mill argues that because we that we have historically accepted the oppression of women we have deemed the subjection of women to be natural since it has become an accepted universal custom/ however in reality it is a glass ceiling of gender oppression in which women cannot elevate