gynecocracy

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From gyneco- +‎ -cracy.

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gynecocracy (countable and uncountable, plural gynecocracies)

  1. (government, sociology) Government or rule by women, or a society with such leadership.
    Synonym: gynocracy
    • 1999, Jacqueline Rose, ‘Go girl’, London Review of Books, 21.19:
      Gynaecocracy may not, however, be an idyllic affair.

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