Well traditional patriarchy was a division of labor, fundamentally. That meant that men did the mental work and women did the emotional work (one could choose other ways to depict the schematization, but this one will do). The effect of this division of labor was that neither the man nor the woman grew up into full adulthood. The man may have been very disciplined and rule abiding, but his emotional maturity would not have developed, necessarily, beyond a very early childhood stage. And the woman, who supposedly ruled in the realm of emotions was also ruled BY her emotions, and hence not that mature either.
A correct analysis of patriarchy indicates therefore that it was a strategy for maintaining economic survival, which extracted a tremendous cost in that neither men nor women could ever become a whole person — that is, they were structurally prevented from becoming mature.
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