HW 22: Is the United States a Patriarchy?

Woolf has a problem with the paper because it showed that England was run by men. There is no evidence of women in this paper and the only one mentioned is very skeptical. “Mr justice —— commented in the Divorce Courts upon the Shamelessness of Women. Sprinkled about the paper were other pieces of news. A film actress had been lowered from a peak in California and hung suspended in mid–air” (Woolf, Chapter 2). Woolf has reason to believe that England is a patriarchy, the only time women are mentioned are in a bad sense or they have to be in Hollywood. Everything else in this paper is about how men run the government, sports and every other aspect of England. Now is this the same in our newspapers today? I took a look at the New York Times and it was pretty startling what I found. After seeing the front page and the main articles I found most were written by men and about men. Now there were articles about women and their actions in society but they were found in the later sections of the paper. Is this proof that America is a patriarchy? I believe this is not true, but women do need to be more recognized in our society and have more power in main stream news. Woolf would not be happy with the progress we have made, but she would also understand that there is improvement and that there is potential for more development.