..." RELIGIOUS PATRIARCHY is the problem."....
Would you consider that our institutionalized 'CLERICALISM' is the problem? Close to the same thing, but slightly different.

In reflecting on the 'process' involved in Acts that brought about creating 'deacons', I analyze it this way:
1. The people - the Greek widows - brought it to attention that there was a problem
2. The Apostles accepted the fact that doing the daily distribution of food etc. was beyond their competence and job description
3. Te Apostles recognized that there were people in the community who had the ability and competence to do the job
4. They asked the people to choose people they trusted to take on the job.
5. Everyone agreed on the solution, so they created an 'office' that became known as 'deacons' to administer things like distributing the daily rations.

Maybe the process could be our model for problems we have today. New problems need new solutions, though.

(more thoughts in other posts)