Certainly. I advise you to read the
The Global Gender Gap Report 2011 by The World Economic Forum and tell me there is no discrimination against women in modern Western countries.
Women earn less than men at every education level, even women CFOs get paid 16% less.
Women are given far more severe prison sentences for spousal homicide than men.
Women aren't allowed in military combat because they are perceived as being too emotionally fragile, physically weak, distracting to men, or something equally baseless and ridiculous.
Women have their reproductive rights consistently challenged by men and are charged more for healthcare than men.
Women are perceived as too stupid to make decisions about their own healthcare and must have men decide what is right for them.
1 in 6 college-age women are victims of attempted or successful sexual assault. More than two-thirds of rapes are unreported because our culture shames women for being assaulted and tries to tell them it is their fault because they're such darn slutty sluts.
And culturally speaking, there's the whole slut/prude dichotomy where women are not allowed to be their own sexual beings.
I'm sorry if you object to "patriarchy". Would you prefer the somewhat more accurate "kyriarchy"? Patriarchal systems are universally accepted as omnipresent in nearly all cultures, so I'm not sure what you're on about. Women occupy less than 20% of national-level governmental offices worldwide.
