What is the relationship between patriarchy and sexism?

Question

What is the relationship between patriarchy and sexism?

Answer 1

Sexism:

1. prejudice or discrimination based on s*x; especially : discrimination against women

2: behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on s*x

Patriarchy:

1: social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line; broadly : control by men of a disproportionately large share of power

2: a society or institution organized according to the principles or practices of patriarchy

Answer 2

Patriarchy is simply when the male is the head of the family. They are related if the woman has no say, et cetera.

Answer 3

Patriarchy is the attempt to suppress females by limiting women to access to opportunity.  That is what sexism is all about.  Power.