Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Gynocracy \Gy*noc"ra*cy\, n. [See {Gynecocracy}.]
   Female government; gynecocracy.

         The aforesaid state has repeatedly changed from
         absolute despotism to republicanism, not forgetting the
         intermediate stages of oligarchy, limited monarchy, and
         even gynocracy; for I myself remember Alsatia governed
         for nearly nine months by an old fishwoman. --Sir H.
                                                  Scott.