gynocracy

[ ji-nok-ruh-see, gahy-, jahy- ]

noun

, plural gy·noc·ra·cies.

1. gynarchy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gynocracy¹

First recorded in 1720–30; gyno- ( def ) + -cracy ( def ); gynecocracy ( def )

Example Sentences

In "The Case for Christian Nationalism," he approvingly cited white supremacist sources like Sam Francis and the website VDare, railed against the "gynocracy" of women's vices that apparently rule America, and suggested that heretics and non-Christians, in his imagined Christian nation should face banishment, prison or death.

From Salon

The same day, Broadly’s Bethy Squires published a faux-apology from Alamo Drafthouse, which is meant as a joke, but doesn’t much depart from the theater’s official response: “We at the Alamo Drafthouse would like to officially apologize for our role in the end of mankind as we knew it, and the ascendant Gynocracy that followed.”

From The Verge

Wonder Woman, aka Diana, hails from the island of Themyscira, which in Jenkins’ vision is a paradisiacal gynocracy of gym-buff Amazons galloping around lustily on horses and spinning in slo-mo through the air in elaborate combat.

From The Guardian

In this recent piece, Adams paints men as hapless victims of gynocracy that tortures men by extracting everything out of them for the faint hope of touching the female bodies.

From Salon

But, for Lee, the result is a nearly science-fiction-like utopia, a sort of salutary gynocracy that begins to heal the world from its age-old curse.

From The New Yorker