Matriarchy

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What Wikipedia says

Matriarchy is a social system in which positions of power and privilege are primarily held by women. In a broader sense it can also extend to moral authority, social privilege, and control of property.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Matriarchy”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Adam Clark Vroman, 1901, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.