That's not having systemic power over a household.
If two people are married and the agreement is that the woman will do most of raising the child and taking care of the home.
That's viewed as patriarchy.
So when/if they divorce this same concept now turns into matriarchy??? How does that work in your mind??
No it's not Patriarchy is more about finances... it ain't about kids that much. you can be in a patriarchy with no kids....
Europeans speak in terms of POWER, it all comes down to the money.
A
patriarchy (from
Greek:
patria means family;
archy means
rule) is a family,
government, or society controlled by senior men, especially by family
patriarchs, i.e., male heads of extended families. For example, under patriarchy, if a man whose father (and whose father's father, etc.) has died, has two married sons and two married daughters and 15 grandchildren, then any
money earned by either of his two sons belongs, not to the individual who earns the
money, but to the family, and the patriarch of the family has authority to decide how the
money is to be distributed among the family members. He has no similar authority over his married daughters, who are under the authority of the patriarchs of the families into which they have married.
The term is often used to mean
societal control by men in general, although this is more properly termed
andrarchy[?]. Many construe this to mean a gender
hierarchy in which men dominate or exploit women, but that need not be the case.
Some
feminist writers have considered patriarchy to be the basis on which most modern societies have been formed. They argue that it is necessary and desirable to get away from this model in order to achieve equality of the sexes. Some critics argue that these writers are oversimplifying the complexities of society, and/or that such
gender roles are not necessarily harmful.
Patriarchy is distinct from
patrilineality and
patrilocality.
