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gynecocracy (s) (noun), gynecocracies (pl)
A government or the rule of a country by women; a society with such leadership: Germany is one example of a nation that had a gynecocracy, led by Angela Merkel, and Great Britain with Queen Elizabeth II until September 2022 when she died.
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The legal government of a country by a woman.
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gynocracy, gynecocracy, gyneocracy (s) (noun); gynocracies; gynecocracies; gyneocracies (pl)
A government by a woman or women: A form of gynocracy is a country in which women are legally capable of the supreme command, for example the former Queen in Great Britain.

A gynocracy is sometimes used in a depreciative sense as "petticoat rule".