A system of government or rule in which both women and men share political power and authority equally.
From Greek gynē (woman) + andr- (man) + -arkhia (rule), the noun form of 'gynandrarchic' describing a theoretical or actual balanced gender-based government.
Scholars have proposed that some early Indigenous societies operated as gynandrarchies, with formal systems where women and men held separate but equally important political roles—a different approach to equality than modern democracies.
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