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Choose one of the following questions to respond to:

1. What is patriarchy and how does patriarchy create gendered inequalities in education both domestically and globally?

2. How do the gendered inequalities within educational systems help to perpetuate and sustain patriarchy?

3. What is the relationship between gender, patriarchy, and sexuality--and why does it matter in education?

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The relationship between gender patriarchy and sexuality lies in how patriarchal systems enforce rigid gender roles and hierarchies that dictate societal norms around sexuality, often marginalizing or controlling expressions of gender and sexual diversity. This matters in education because such systems shape curricula, policies, and classroom dynamics, influencing how students understand identity, relationships, and power. If left unaddressed, patriarchal norms in education can perpetuate gender inequality, limit inclusivity, and hinder the development of equitable learning environments that celebrate diversity and promote critical thinking about societal structures. Addressing these issues is essential for fostering an education system that empowers all students to thrive regardless of gender or sexuality.

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Gender inequalities within our education has a very significant role in perpetuating and sustaining patriarchy in many ways. One way gendered inequalities play inequality in our schools plays a significant role in perpetuating patriarchy is what we are teaching in our schools. For example, our textbooks may solely focus on the achievements and view of men. This marginalizes the contributions to our history and society that women have made, this further supports the notion that men have made more progress and have contributed more innovation in our history and society. This also further decreases the value of women in todays society which contributes to many other things like pay disparities in the work place between men and women.

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Gendered inequalities within educational systems play a significant role in perpetuating and sustaining patriarchy by reinforcing societal norms and structures that privilege men over women. One of the ways it reinforces Gender inequality is the lack of representation of women's achievement in the curriculum. It lays more emphasis on male dominance. Also, teachers are biased in encouraging boys to pursue STEM-based careers. Schools also reinforce social norms where patriarchal values are reproduced and normalized. There is a gender division in school sports, such as football; girls are considered too weak to participate. There are also discriminatory practices within the educational system based on stereotyping, such as boys being boys and girls acting more ladylike. Schools need to address gender inequality so That education can shift from patriarchy to equity for all by creating gender-sensitive curricula that challenge stereotypes, equal access to all fields of study for both genders and teacher training to eliminate unconscious biases.

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Patriarchy is a social system in which men hold primary power and dominate in roles of leadership, authority, privilege and control in various spheres of life including political, economic, social and family structures. Patriarchy creates gender inequalities in education both domestically and globally through structural, cultural and institutional mechanisms. These inequalities manifest in access to education, treatment within educational systems.. Patriarchal norms encourage boys to pursue education and professional careers while steering girls toward caregiving or domestic roles. In many schools environments where girls experience higher rates of sexual harassment and bullying leading to disengagement or dropping out. Men dominate leadership positions in educational institutions which often leads to policies and practices that fail to address or prioritize gender equity.

Globally in many societies boys are prioritized over girls for schooling. Girls face barriers like early marriage, child labor and gender-base violence, which are reinforce by patriarchal norms, traditions such as dowries, honor systems or restrictions on women's mobility often prevent girls from completing their education.

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The relationship between gender, patriarchy, and sexuality is deeply interconnected and significantly impacts education by perpetuating inequalities and reinforcing societal hierarchies. Patriarchy sustains rigid gender roles, often steering boys toward dominance and leadership while limiting girls to compliance and nurturing roles, creating disparities in opportunities and expectations. Simultaneously, heteronormativity privileges heterosexual relationships and marginalizes LGBTQ identities, as seen in exclusionary curricula and policies that invalidate nonconforming gender and sexual expressions. These dynamics create environments where adherence to patriarchal and heteronormative norms is rewarded, while deviation leads to marginalization. Addressing these issues in education is critical, as schools shape societal values and have the power to challenge these structures. By integrating diverse perspectives, fostering critical thinking, and promoting inclusive environments, education can disrupt cycles of inequality and empower all students to thrive authentically.

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Patriarchy and the Institution of Gender and Sexuality

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Patriarchy and the Institution of Gender and Sexuality

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The relationship between gender, patriarchy, and sexuality is significant in education because these constructs shape students' experiences and access to safe learning environments. Patriarchy enforces traditional gender roles and stigmatizes LGBTQ+ identities, fostering discrimination that often manifests in bullying or exclusion in schools. Sexuality, when seen through a rigid lens, compounds the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ students, who may feel unsupported or unsafe. Addressing these issues in education matters because inclusive policies and allyship can counteract the harm caused by systemic biases. When schools adopt inclusive curriculums and provide resources for LGBTQ+ students, they create spaces where all students feel valued. It combats stereotypes, and ensures that students’ gender and sexual identities are not barriers to their success. Teachers and allies play a critical role in advocating for such changes and fostering acceptance.

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Patriarchy is a social system in which men possess primary power and privilege, leading to significant gender inequalities in education. This system restricts girls' access to educational opportunities, shapes career choices based on gender stereotypes, and creates learning environments that often favor boys, both on a local and global scale. Contributing factors include unequal teacher expectations, biased curricula, and societal pressures that emphasize domestic roles for girls over their academic pursuits.

Moreover, these disparities are frequently justified through cultural customs and religious beliefs. Across many societies worldwide, boys are preferred for educational opportunities and are prepared for leadership roles, while girls are often anticipated to fulfill roles as mothers and housewives. While motherhood is undeniably vital, women should have the autonomy to pursue careers alongside their responsibilities at home.

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Gender is frequently used to create power dynamics in patriarchal systems, where men occupy dominant positions. This affects how sexuality is viewed and experienced especially for girls and non -binary students. This is significant in education because it can reinforce negative gender stereotypes and restrict opportunities which often impact their academic performance, career choices and overall experience in school. Gender stereotypes may affect students' career goals by encouraging boys to pursue “masculine”  careers and girls to pursue traditionally “feminine” careers. This may also lead to devaluing women by being seen as the “other” or object, while men are the subject.

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Gendered inequalities allow for continuous sustainability of patriarchy in the educational system, it limits what is being taught  and prohibits new materials from entering the curriculum. Most textbooks used to teach are mainly focused on what the white male wants to teach us. It pushes any other thoughts, readings, and outside sources from entering the classroom and being taught. When we speak of gendered inequalities we must take into account all genders. We now how the inclusions of more than simply two genders and I think now more than ever we should be able to bring in readings or articles or books from different genders. Not only would it allow for possibly other students to feel heard but it can also eliminate the fear in differences. Allowing for such items can benefit the classroom and the students. Patriarchy is systematically imbedded in all that we know but it is only us who can truly let go of the fear of differences and try to understand each other. Instead of going against one another.

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Gender inequality within education plays a role in sustaining patriarchy. One way that it does this is by not giving women enough credit for the things they do or academic awards they receive. Most of the time men are more likely to be recognized when receiving achievements. In schools there can be an impact on academic performance due to gender inequality. There may be restrictions for both male and female which can lead to not being in the same classes or being able to participate in the same curriculum.

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The cultural norms associated with being male, female, or non-binary are just as important as biological sex (male/female). According to gender norms, people should act in certain ways, choose particular professions, and express themselves in particular ways. In a patriarchal social structure, men dominate in positions of moral authority, political leadership, social privilege, and property ownership. In a culture that is patriarchal, This includes sexual orientation, sexual preferences, identities, and behaviors. Patriarchal values frequently influence sexual health and relationship education. Traditional sex education programs may prioritize heterosexual partnerships while ignoring LGBTQ+ identities and non-normative sexualities. The link between gender, patriarchy, and sexuality is important in education because these characteristics influence how people perceive school, what possibilities they have, and how they interact with others. Gender, patriarchy, and sexuality are inextricably linked, and they all have an impact on how education is structured and operates. Understanding this, these power systems tend to favor masculinity while marginalizing femininity (and frequently non-binary or gender nonconforming individuals). Sexuality refers to how people experience and express themselves sexually.

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Patriarchy is how the man is the lead of everything the person that has the control or has the power over decision and what it gets done while woman is not supposed to do so because is a "Man's role." I think that patriarchy bring inequalities in domestically and globally, by pushing back women of getting their education and right to get knowledge of being part of society, such as having laws and regulations or even social norms that favor more men than woman. A good example of this is for example is some school is a norm for the female students to wear skirts, however that can make then feel exposed to man and I have seen this with my own eyes in which male student be lifting the skirt of the female students on a way of bullying which brings negative energy and emotions which can lead to a not that successful education.

I feel like gendered inequalities within educational system help to perpetuate and sustain patriarchy patriarchy by curriculum and what they teach to the students. which we can see that in many schools the content of the curriculum is more gender biased by the highlight of the contribution of male historic figures and barely talking about the women contribution to the society we are living today.

education system often reinforces the idea of heterosexuality as the right thing and assume that everyone is either male or female and that all of them are straight marginalizing the people who are LGBT which bring oppression and also negative emotion that can lead to a not successful education that would be a not enough preparation for their future.

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The relationship between gender and patriarchy is pretty simple. Men are usually in positions of power. Men have held these positions since America's inception. Women have generally held household positions, as well as support positions throughout history. The notable contributions from women much like other groups, have been looked over throughout history. There is limited representation for women in leadership roles. To not include women in the conversation, limits inspiration, it pushes the narrative that women are not fit for these roles. The same goes when it comes to Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math. Men are pushed toward those roles through education while women are not as encouraged to pursue those roles in society.

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Gender inequalities in education help keep patriarchy alive by teaching boys and girls different roles based on their gender. For example, girls may be encouraged to focus on subjects like literature or caregiving, while boys are pushed towards science or leadership roles. This creates a system where men are more likely to have powerful jobs and control over resources, while women are limited to lower-paying, less influential positions. Education may create a system where they keep patriarchy alive, sometimes without noticing what happening or how education is affecting the future.

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Patriarchy is a system where men hold more power and privilege than women and people of other genders. Society is shaped by a system that concentrates on men's roles and contributions over women's, further expecting women to assume less visible roles such as caregiving or housework, while men are perceived as leaders or decision-makers. Patriarchy shapes many laws, customs, along with behaviors, causing important gender inequality.

Globally and domestically, patriarchy in education creates many gender inequalities.

Many societies concentrate on boys' education over girls', therefore there are fewer girls attending school in several regions. The expectation that girls stay home to help with chores or marry early might cause families to concentrate on educating boys. Harassment, insufficient resources such as sanitary facilities and incredibly biased curriculums that are often representing men as leaders and women as caretakers. This seriously challenges even girls who can attend school.

Opportunities for many women are limited globally, along with the perpetuation of many cycles of inequality, since education is a key factor in accessing better jobs as well as leadership roles. Changes in attitudes, policies, as well as teaching practices are important to address the deeply rooted patriarchy in education, so that all genders have genuinely equal opportunities to learn and succeed.

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Patriarchy is a system of society in which men hold power over women and conduct the flow of responsibilities based on gender. Men will dictate how society will run and who is excluded from that society. They will place value on the people of that society. Patriarchy serves the well-being and protection of men. It allows for the exploitation and discrimination of others. It creates superiority and inferiority based on the physical, emotional, intellectual, and psychological differences between the sexes. Men portray themselves as rational, intelligent, logical, and even-tempered. They tend to excel in mathematics, science, and politics. They portray women as emotional, irrational, and simple-minded. They are restricted to domestic work: cooking, cleaning, tending to house chores, and managing the children. Women are excluded from worldly conversations and disregarded. Women who excel in areas designated for men are regarded as anomalies and are socially ostracized. Globally, women may be restricted from attaining higher education and may be exploited to work in factories, markets, and farms in third-world countries.

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Patriarchy is a social system where power is predominantly held by men, often reinforcing the belief that men are superior to women. This social system is so that men make the rules and primarily benefits from them. This power imbalance creates gendered inequalities in education by shaping societal expectations and policies that prioritize male voices, achievements, and access to resources, while limiting opportunities for women. Bias are created for example women being pushed more into domestic roles and men being pushed into stem fields. "Women's jobs" being seen as less valued, and payed less and l while "men's jobs" seen as more valuable with a higher pay value. Globally, patriarchy leads to situations where girls are sometimes not allowed to go to school or face obstacles like early marriage or violence because of their gender. These barriers prevent girls from getting the same education as boys, keeping them stuck in cycles of poverty and limited opportunities.

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Gendered inequalities within educational systems help perpetuate and sustain hierarchy by maintaining the wage gap. Schools make it difficult for girls to attend outside of the US with barriers like unavailability of gendered bathrooms, schools nearby their homes, financial expenses, and other things. We see how this pushes them to learn regardless and begin teaching other children in their communities without resources. However, being teachers and taking care of children play into the patriarchal ideology of women jobs. These jobs are usually lower paying, even in the U.S. In America, if we continuously place barriers on black girls as well we create spaces where they also wouldn't want to learn and would constantly feel threatened. This plays again into the wage gap when women decide to either drop out, not finish because of prison and end up without diplomas and lower paying jobs.

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Patriarchy is a system of society where men are dominant and hold leadership over women. Patriarchy creates gendered inequalities in education due to gender roles set by sociality. Have you ever noticed that most teachers in primary schools are mostly women. Then you start to see a mixture of male teachers and female teachers in middle school and high school. Pre-K and kindergarten, you never really see a male teaching this group of children. The phrase boys will be boys only enables students' behavior allowing this to happen can lead to a big problem. Justifying their actions being associated with their gender. Something to take into consideration now is how it's becoming socially acceptable for there to be gender-neutral bathrooms for students who don't abide by their sex assigned at birth. It might be socially accepted here in America but in other countries, oppression due to gender changes. Gender inequality can also occur in what curriculum is being taught to students.

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the relationship between the patriarchy, gender and sexuality

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the relationship between the patriarchy, gender and sexuality

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Question 3: The correlation between gender, patriarchy, and sexuality is how society organizes power and roles based on whether someone is male, female, or identifies differently, and how they express their sexual identity. This matters in education because patriarchy can lead to unequal treatment. For example, girls might be discouraged from studying certain subjects. LGBTQ+ students might face discrimination and stereotypes where gender expectations can pressure students to act a certain way like boys feeling they can’t express emotions or girls being expected to be quiet and “polite”. Understanding this relationship helps schools become places where everyone feels respected and can succeed, no matter their gender or sexuality. Thankfully in the last couple of years in the high school where I work, GSA (Gay/Straight Alliance) a club the students created, is one of the top clubs.

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Response to question #1:

Patriarchy simply put is a social system that allocates more power and privilege to men as opposed to women. Patriarchy governs what roles men and women operate in and serve as.  Patriarchy manifest globally in terms of education as societal norms that essentially prioritize the education of boys over girls. In these instances girls are limited to domesticity, which stunts educational aspirations. In some cases, there is a legitimate fear of harm or harassment of young girls on their way to school. This fear is  influential on parental decisions to allow their daughters to attend school.  Nevertheless, patriarchy shapes educational outcomes for girls based on an unfounded notion that men are superior to women. Domestically I believe patriarchy is realized by the preference for males in certain fields of education ( STEM, engineering, etc.) and certain industries (law enforcement, construction etc.), this gendered discrimination appears in wages as well.

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Interesting when I think back, I had male math and science teachers and women teachers for writing, Spanish and poetry. There's this idea that boys are encouraged to pursue STEM while girls are steered towards humanities, and the arts. That there is also this lack of female representation in achievements, and contributions are present in school curriculum. Whereas textbooks and learning materials often portray men in leadership roles. Educational systems often sustain patriarchal norms even through school leadership/administration. Most decision making roles like the educators, school administrators, principled policymakers, are often predominantly men.