A patriarchy.

... Today, women throughout religion are still fighting to be heard and gain more power. Women have gone through centuries of oppression and it is a common belief that within the Christian tradition, women have oftentimes been excluded and silenced, resulting in their subordination. This has occurred since the very origin of Christianity, from St.Paul's first-century teaching, that women should "learn in silence with all subjection" and not "teach or usurp authority over the man," to the more recent controversy of rejecting the ordination of women into the priesthood (MacHaffie 153, 216). From the birth of Christianity, there have been not so welcoming ideologies within the institution, which have led to this subordination of women. Three prominent ideologies, patriarchy, sexism and asceticism, caused much oppression for women and are very clear to see throughout the history of the Christian church. A patriarchy can be described as a social system in

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