feminalist

comparative more feminalist · superlative most feminalist

1. gender studiesgovernmentPertaining to or indicative of feminalism; reflecting women's values and concerns.

   It assumes that more feminalist proponents are found on the left end of the spectrum and more masculinist ones on the right.

   2005, Sue Thomas, Clyde Wilcox, Women and Elective Office: Past, Present, and Future

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   Practised in the context of a social movement, dispersed leadership has opened opportunities for women to adopt feminalist styles of leadership that invite and increase the participation of women as a group, while it has also provided the means to advance feminist agendas.

   2009, John Kane, Haig Patapan, Paul 't Hart, Dispersed Democratic Leadership, page 56

   As chair of the House Ethics Committee, she appeared to fulfill the feminalist role of ethical or moral leadership that the mass public and the political elite expect from women.

   2011, Keith Dowding, Encyclopedia of Power, page 715

   Antonyms: masculinist