What's the difference between gynarchy and matriarchy?

Gynarchy


Definition:

  • (n.) Government by a woman.

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Matriarchy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A survey of 232 households of the Mosuo minority group in Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China, suggested that polyandrous matriarchy did not raise the birth rate per household, but lowered the community birth rate by restricting many women's chances of marrying.
  • (2) They die and leave their money to their wives, and the place becomes a matriarchy.” The main focus in Palm Beach is on “the season”, meaning the winter.
  • (3) While a model of treatment based on a psychological matriarchy is no better, a model of training in health promotion with an appropriate balance of the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of life gives more hope of training professionals who can see the larger picture of their patients' lives and a better record of success than presently exists.
  • (4) Guided by Freud's dialectic thinking and his discussion of the phenomena of patriarchy and matriarchy, one is led to contemplate the totemism of a matriarchally oriented boy.
  • (5) The results showed that the polyandrous matriarchy did not raise the birth rate per household, but lowered the community birth rate by restricting the chances of women marrying (28.4% not married) due to the scarcity of unattached men.
  • (6) The phenomenon is not correlated with an unusually large degree of male parental investment, polyandry, greater aggressiveness in females than in males, greater development of weapons in females, female dominance, or matriarchy.
  • (7) The study hypothesis is that for Musuo women, matriarchy is associated with higher fertility than patriarchy, and polyandrous marriage is associated with higher fertility than is monogamous matriarchy or monogamous patriarchy.
  • (8) Not only must these brave men battle feminists hell bent on a matriarchial dystopia, but they need to remind other men that they are the real victims in this gender war – a brutal struggle where 49% of the world’s population must have 100% of all the attention.
  • (9) The matrilineal system should not be confused with matriarchy.
  • (10) The PC-project is bent on "transforming a patriarchy into a matriarchy" and "intends to deny the intrinsic worth of native Christian European heterosexual males".
  • (11) Tawakkol Karman in Yemen, and Saida Saadouni in Tunisia are examples of this fierce matriarchy.

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