Noun
a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line
Source: WordNetNot a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university. Camille Paglia
I wanted to make it clear that the show's about a matriarchy. I wanted it to be clear that power can be ugly, and a matriarchy is just as ugly as a patriarchy. It may look a little different, but power is bloody. Gillian Schieber Flynn
Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy. Hanna Rosin
I don't subscribe to patriarchy, and I don't think it should be substituted with matriarchy. Source: Internet
But our work more recently has tended to show that in fact there is very little evidence of a mother goddess and very little evidence of some sort of female-based matriarchy. Source: Internet
Instead of a Mother Goddess culture, Hodder points out that the site gives little indication of a matriarchy or patriarchy. Source: Internet