genderquake

plural genderquakes

1. A fundamental shift of power from men to women.

   These regions have genderquakes of their own.

   1998, Sadie Plant, Zeros + ones: digital women + the new technoculture

   2 more examples

   I have shown that the malestream has largely ignored a genderquake in sociology although a few men are very disturbed about it, and a larger minority of men are excited by it.

   2003, Sara Delamont, Feminist Sociology

   I believe she is quite right about the systemic gender crisis it caused. While Wolf marks the hearing as a moment that killed patriarchy, I understand the genderquake to have had the following effects[…]

   2008, Sara Lynn McKinnon, The Discursive Formation of Gender in Women's Gendered Claims to U.S. Asylum, page 6