femocrat
femocrat noun: a female politician or senior civil servant; a female bureaucrat in an agency dealing with women's issues.
Noun
femocrat (plural femocrats)
- A female politician or senior civil servant; a female bureaucrat in an agency dealing with women's issues.
- Despite working in a difficult environment, femocrats have made an important contribution to Australian politics over the past two decades.1999, Elizabeth Van Acker, Different Voices: Gender and Politics in Australia, page 120
- Femocrats also carry the burden of representation, if they are expected to speak for all women; or, alternatively, they are dismissed as “unrepresentative” of ordinary women and so not entitled to speak for them.2000, Jan Jindy Pettman, “Femocrats,” entry in Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender (editors) Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Education: Health to Hypertension, page 847
Forms of femocrat
| plural | femocrats |
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Origin of femocrat
Blend of female + bureaucrat.
Questions about femocrat
- What does femocrat mean?
- Femocrat means a female politician or senior civil servant; a female bureaucrat in an agency dealing with women's issues.
- What part of speech is femocrat?
- Femocrat is a noun.
- What is the plural of femocrat?
- The plural of femocrat is femocrats.
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