in mills opposes the belief that patriarchy is natural. He argues that this is unnatural because women do not want to be subordinate objects to men. They wanted to have jobs, be educated, own property and have the same opportunities as their male counterparts, but they did not succeed; they were forced to complain about the universal system of inequality imposed by the laws of patriarchy. This system regulated political and social relations between men and women. Men took the notion of physical inequality and used it as a physical fact to justify the legal right to hold power in monarchies. Because men have held more power throughout history, it has been easier for them to legislate since they were already in power. this leads to women and men being subjugated and seen as dependent, obedient and socially and politically limited by legal social constructs created by men. Mill argues that because we have historically accepted the oppression of women, we have considered the subjugation of women to be natural since it has become a universally accepted custom/ yet in reality this is a glass ceiling of gender oppression in which women cannot rise.