gynocratic

English

Etymology

From gyno- +‎ -cratic.

Adjective

gynocratic (comparative more gynocratic, superlative most gynocratic)

1. Pertaining to government by women.
   • 1838, John Sanderson, The American in Paris, volume 2, London: Henry Colburn, page 280:

     How it should exist where there are ladies, I do not conceive, and, least of all, do I conceive how it should exist in Philadelphia, the most gynocratic of all cities.

   • 1971, Elizabeth Gould Davis, The First Sex, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, ch. 3:

     More and more, archaeology is proving that there was indeed a golden age—a gynocratic age that endured for untold millennia, up past the dawn of written history.

   • 1986, Paula Gunn Allen, The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in Ancient Indian Traditions‎^[1], Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 2:

     Traditional tribal lifestyles are more often gynocratic than not, and they are never patriarchal.

Antonyms

• androcratic, phallocratic