androcracy

American  

[an-drok-ruh-see] / ænˈdrɒk rə si /

noun

1. social and political rule by men.

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Other Word Forms

• androcratic adjective

Etymology

Origin of androcracy

andro- + -cracy

Example Sentences

We cannot expect people who are laboring under a sense of intolerable injury to set politely about the righting of that injury: when woman has entered her kingdom she will no longer have to resort to political nagging; her true nature will affirm itself for the first time, for it is difficult to believe that it has been able to affirm itself under the entirely artificial conditions of androcracy.

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