Misogyny:
Prejudice against
women.
Hatred of
females.
Misogyny is one of a set of words constructed from a prefix, one of Phil- or Mis- meaning to love/like or hate/dislike, a middle part, one of -Gyn-, -Andr- or -Anthrop- meaning women, men or people in general and a suffix -ist, -y, -ism indicating the part of speech, ie practitioner, concept and practice respectively.
see also Philogyny (love of women), Misandry (hatred of men), Philandry (love of men), Misanthropy (hatred of people) and Philanthropy (love of people); misogynist and misogynistic.
I don't believe that
misogyny is a tenet of society (which society?). If you buy the hardline
feminist rhetoric, then misogyny is an implicit unspoken value
inherent in the system of many cultures, even to a lesser extent in
American and
European ones. However it is not a tenet, which would
imply that it is
explicit.
I'd personally prefer to regard it as a sad flaw in some men.