HW 22: Is the US a patriarchy?

I think that Woolfe believed the paper in England was patriarchy. Throughout chapter two, she talks about how women have nothing to write or say about men, and all men have to do is talk about women. On page 33, as she’s reading the newspaper Woolfe is distracted by the headlines, “Somebody had made a big score in South Africa. Lesser ribbons announced that Sir Austen Chamberlain was at Geneva. A meat axe with human hair on it had been found in a cellar. Mr. Justice --- commented in the Divorce Courts upon Shamelessness of Women.” Since patriarchy means; a society in which fathers are the powerful responsible heads of their families and households, and by extension, a society in which men hold a disproportionately large share of power, Woolfe has a reason to think that the paper is a patriarchy. All it mentions is men, and the power that they have. I looked at the New York Times newspaper to see if it would give a transient visitor to our planet the impression that the United States is a patriarchy. In my opinion, I don’t think it does at all. On the homepage to the New York Times, there are mostly articles about what’s going on with the war. That doesn’t seem like a patriarchy because there are both men and women soldiers fighting in the war right now.