As this concept is so key to my understanding of the world, I tend to assume that everyone knows and agrees on its meaning. But as I have been challenged on this, I have come to see that this is not the case and that actually there are understandable grounds for confusion; and so a brief excursus may be in order, all the more so since I need this concept for a general argument on theodicy that I want to make in a forthcoming article
TL;DR "patriarchy" == Statism