Is Patriarchy Failing?

According to women, patriarchy is oppressive.  Yet, in a patriarchal society, you have people like Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Mae West, Beyonce, Oprah, Hillary Clinton and many other successful women.  If a patriarchy is oppressive to women, how could so many ladies be successful? 

Some may say oppression is because of patriarchy and capitalism. Except, global trade has existed for thousands of years.  Europeans traded with Asia and even the Americas. Local and international trade is based on having something of value that another person wants.

Why would women be against this system? Even if a woman is a stay at home mother, she is rewarded with a lavish lifestyle if she chooses a great husband and knows how to support him to be successful.

If a woman chooses a man who has not trained himself to be valuable, she will be in a lower class. On the other hand, if she finds a man with high value and does not know how to support him, she could be a distraction that causes his value to be reduced. 

Women believe this system is failing. Women believe they should be given a job even if she does not bring the same value as a man.  That is called entitlement.  Then they say they don’t need a man. However, the jobs they want are in companies created by men. For those women who don’t want to work, they can have children and receive minimal financial support from the government.  The next level is to marry and divorce. 

While many women use these strategies, they are not looking at what’s in the best interest of the nation. They divorce men and use the children as pawns for extortion.

Perhaps the only way patriarchy has failed is because they have given women rights of any kind.