Social Equality vs Patriarchy
Photo credit: Freepik Under the branch of human biology, nature has broadly classified homo sapiens into two sexes: male (with an x and a y chromosome) and female (with two x chromosomes). Although it must be noted that the existence of intersex people and others with chromosomal anomalies challenges this neat, sex binary. Culture, on the other hand, has made an imaginary classification of humankind into genders: man and woman, mainly. This is precisely what defines patriarchy. It is a universal phenomenon that constructs societies across the world. It basically decodes a set of rules or qualities, such as dressing style, walking style, gestures like shyness, and many other behavioural traits that makes a man a “man”, and a and a woman a “woman”. Any deviation from these preconceived notions will lead to the person being seen as incomplete. This arbitrary differentiation between men and women is the basis of hierarchy, in a pat