This might also explain, for example, why some men are fighting organizational promotion of women as being discriminatory against their own career advancements. We are still struggling, both with the alienation by existing systems and with our inability to live and act by a fundamentally new set of rules. And a lot of people (women* and men*) remain „within the logic of the patriarchy by constantly protesting against its rules or by interpreting their feeling of alienation by claiming that the patriarchy has indeed not ended yet.“ There are still no widely accepted rules for social cooperation in a post-patriarchal society. It’s about a completely new set of rules. But what’s next then? Is this just a challenge for a new kind of storytelling? I believe, that it’s a discussion much more fundamental. The old narratives won’t resonate any longer. And I have an inkling, that this may well have to do with the rules, by which they are still playing out campaigns or employer branding. Whether it is political parties, transnational organizations or companies: All of these institutions find it harder and harder to create attraction and, even harder, retention. This disorder leads to an increasing alienation: Women (and more and more men) feel like they don’t belong any more. The disorder, Schrupp has already been pointing at some twenty years ago, is still affecting large parts of our systems today. And only after having read Antje Schrupp’s essay, I have understood that we are still lacking such a new order. Sometimes, while trying to fully grasp the implications of patriarchal systems, I get the impression that there’s a fight going on on all sides: a fight for the interpretation sovereignty about what is to become an alternative system to patriarchy. And, of course, this is a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea. ![]() Patriarchy’s logic, Schrupp explains, has left women with only two alternatives: They can either adapt to roles and behaviors typically framed as female, or, they can strive to become like men themselves. We almost behave like alcoholics, well aware of the fatal implications of the drug.īut why? Female authority as a key conceptĪntje Schrupp, a German political scientist, feminist and author, wrote an excellent piece on female authority back in 2001, in which she describes how the patriarchal system remains in charge simply because a trusted new approach is yet to be established. We still rely on it in times of radical change. Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity.Īnd yet, we haven’t abolished patriarchy once and for all. We need a multitude of perspectives in order to cope with what we have framed in a cryptic acronym: „VUCA“. ![]() They came to the conclusion, that patriarchal systems are counterintuitive in times, where we’d rather embrace diversity than stick to predominantly male monocultures. They have experienced its narrow limitations and its discriminatory nature. It is a system, and women can support the system of patriarchy just as men can support the fight for gender equality.“ (Justine Musk) It’s patriarchy, and patriarchy is not men.
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