Patriarchy In The Military

Individuals and “the system” intermingle to form the basis of patriarchy, but for individuals and the system to mix, socialization -- how we learn to “participate in social life” -- must occur (Kirk and Okazawa-Rey 70). Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards point out several guarantees of life in the 1970’s, including that only “2 percent of everybody in the military is female”, “44 percent of women are employed outside the home” and that “those women make, on average, fifty-two cents to the dollar earned by males” (Dept of Gender and Race Studies 334-35). Kevin Powell admits that he grew up believing that men are innately superior to women, and he carried that notion into adulthood (Dept of Gender and Race Studies 480). Sarah McCarry was eventually