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.

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.

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.

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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

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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.

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Consequently, both the Palestinian Authority and Israel have homework to do the Palestinian Authority has to continue to exert control and authority, while Israel has to strengthen the hand of moderate forces and enable the Authority to impose itself successfully.

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.

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The Palestinian Authority should

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