The oppression of women within global capitalism exists in a context of sexist oppression within global patriarchy. Men control positions of authority in every institution that possesses political, economic or social power. The exclusion of women from state power extends to to the local level and the judiciary.
Men also control corporate power.
The world's religions not only exclude women from positions of authority but actively promote misogynist agendas, attempting to promote control over women's bodies through anti-abortion campaigns, the exclusion of women from public life, the subordination of women as men's possession through marriage and providing ideological justifications for men's use of violence in attempting to control women. Women are also controlled by men through rape and other violence. In Canada, an average of 100 women each year are murdered by their male partners or ex-partners. In Canada a woman is raped every 17 minutes. Murder is the number one cause of workplace deaths for women.