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

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

The discrimination against women is mostly caused by existing socio cultural patriarchal values still prevailing in the society.

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family.

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

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.

Violence against women in Afghanistan persists for many reasons. First, the country has inherited a patriarchal tribal tradition that assumes women s inferiority.

First, the country has inherited a patriarchal tribal tradition that assumes women s inferiority. Women are therefore deprived of their basic rights and freedoms.

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.

According to Brazilian sociologist Natalia Mori, the existence of this phenomenon is because of the combined effects of ancient patriarchal society, racialism, and capitalism values.

The cultural constraint is strongly related to the patriarchal culture of our society, where one may observe a marked division of roles between the two genders.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

A victim of trafficking would usually be taken from a poor family in a village with low status, having little or no education, and dominated by a patriarchal culture or she could come from a broken home.

The report gave good information on the reform of the family law, but a comparative assessment of the de facto situation would also be welcome, with regard to enduring patriarchal values such as polygamy, levirate and early marriage.

For historical reasons, the common mindset among most of the public remains a traditionally patriarchal mindset in which belief in the unquestioned social leadership of men and in the accompanying subordination of women is the predominant attitude about gender.

Turning to the issue of stereotyping (CEDAW C WSM 1 3, pp. 47 48), she said that discrimination and patriarchal attitudes were being perpetuated by both traditional and more modern structures, the latter typified by colonial structures and attitudes.

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. Governments and international aid organizations have failed to take into consideration the role of

Ms. Tan observed that while the new Government had introduced legislation against domestic violence and was making necessary amendments in laws governing honour crimes, incest, adultery and the like, the important thing was to change the patriarchal mentality in the country.

Ms. Gabr applauded the extension of compulsory basic education to eight years of schooling but requested more information on the patriarchal values and unfavourable economic conditions which adversely affected the educational status of girls, as indicated in the written report (CEDAW C TUR 4 5, p. 22).

The two men met, seemingly as equals, not to express the common values of conservatism, but to confirm and promote their authority to uphold traditional values. Both agreed that reform must be slow, cautious and that it must never undermine established institutions, especially religion and the patriarchal family.

Women and children suffer the most in times of conflict. Add to this centuries old patriarchal traditions, 15 year old post war traumas, a 20 year economic crisis, and current Russian aggression, and you may begin to grasp what women in South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Georgia are enduring these days.

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. Governments and international aid organizations have failed to take into consideration the role ofFarhang, perhaps because the power of unwritten law remains largely inconceivable in the West.

Despite this progress, there are still obstacles to putting these formal measures into practice, including the absence of mechanisms for ensuring participation, the failure to prepare women to take part in political life, insufficient party support and the effects of a patriarchal system that has historically blocked the development of women's capacity for political participation.

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. Feminist interpretations of religious texts encouraged by increasing numbers of women in prominent religious positions continue to challenge traditionalists of all stripes.

Young people who were involved in the programme called Life and system of values of student population refuse the patriarchal concept of family according to which a father supports a family in the material sense while a mother takes care of the household and the children (83,7 ) and support equal division of work in the household (73,6 ).

Noting that the Italian Government's European Affairs Minister and former European Union Commissioner designate, Rocco Buttiglione, had stated in October 2004 that the purpose of the family was to allow women to devote themselves to raising children and to live under the protection of their spouse, she wondered to what extent such patriarchal attitudes persisted in Italy.

This agreement includes including collaborating or not with the Taliban, cooperating with the Coalition forces, accepting or refusing poppy eradication in a village. Everything else is left to patriarchal discretion. Here, no one will intervene except to reinforce the application of   the patriarch's rights say, in stoning a supposedly wayward girl, or turning a blind eye to so called honor killings of women.

This agreement includes including collaborating or not with the Taliban, cooperating with the Coalition forces, accepting or refusing poppy eradication in a village. Everything else is left to patriarchal discretion. Here, no one will intervene except to reinforce the application of the patriarch's rights say, in stoning a supposedly wayward girl, or turning a blind eye to so called honor killings of women.

As for 2003, Palestinian citizens of Israel comprised 19.3 of the whole population, while Palestinian women comprised about half of the Palestinian population living in Israel.4 They face discrimination on three levels for being women, for being part of a patriarchal male dominated society and for being part of an indigenous ethnic minority living in Israel, thus making them the most disadvantaged community living in Israel.

The report indicates that the Government has given priority to the elimination of harmful gender stereotypes in the Beijing Plus Five Action Plan 2001 2005 (para. 68), but does not provide any details of the strategies that have been adopted for the eradication of patriarchal norms and stereotypes in Australia, nor of the measures in place to combat the acceptance of stereotypical roles of men and women.

The main explanations are schools are perceived as culturally alien, especially in rural areas in highly patriarchal societies sending boys to school is more useful schools do not take into account the fact that the vast majority of girls are heavily burdened with domestic tasks schools are often far from the places of residence there is a shortage of teachers, particularly in rural areas.

The report indicates that the Government has given priority to the elimination of harmful gender stereotypes in the Beijing Plus Five Action Plan 2001 2005 (para. 68), but does not provide any details of the strategies that have been adopted for the eradication of patriarchal norms and stereotypes in Australia, nor of the measures in place to combat the stereotypical roles of men and women.