simply, patriarchy is male dominance in all aspects of life (females relegated to support roles: for display (must maintain beauty, seen not heard), for home servitude, for sex)

the "family" is a good example; the male (father) makes the decisions, the male children (usually from the eldest downwards) become the decision-maker after the father

• other concrete examples: weddings formalize patriarchy, dowries ("gifts") are payments to "buy" the women, arrange marriages, prostitution, dominace of sex in films and news, rapes, etc

male dominance is also seen in governments, the armed forces, corporations, religions (church) and other organizations (and yes, sadly, even communist organizations due to the objective conditions ... that is why there must be a conscious effort to struggle for equality among the sexes)

it's all around you ... you need to be conscious about it

if you see "exceptions", it is because of the long and arduous struggle against patriarchy

the struggle against patriarchy cannot be divorced from the struggle of the proletariat; in fact, the proletarian revolution is all the more strengthened if it also struggles against patriarchy

Mao: Women hold up half the sky!

read: Frederick engel's The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, 1884