Women didn’t have the right to vote in the United States, until 1920. So, patriarchy stems from that fact. Other countries have different years, before voting w

Women didn’t have the right to vote in the United States, until 1920. So, patriarchy stems from that fact. Other countries have different years, before voting was extended to women, and sometimes the pretext wasn’t unconditional, requiring land ownership or other qualifiers. Meanwhile, “paternal” in the context of politics is an expression for degree of intervention or invasiveness of government overreach, and is less referential to male or female qualities directly. The term often reflects a strict fatherland, and less a nurturing motherland, again with the qualities as abstractions. A paternalistic government is less tyrranical, but more insistent on the adoption of customs, even if those customs aren’t sexist or chauvanistic. Paternalism differs from “patriarchy” in that a patriarchy directly refers to the identity of the constituents of the regime in control, while paternalism only hints that the regime in question has imposed unpopular policies “for your own good” like eating your vegetables, but not to the extent of totalitarian brainwashing. Maternalism woulf be more akin to providing benefits and preventative maintenance of citizenry. Usually the prlance for maternalism often gets branded as socialism to cast a negative light.