femocrat

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A female politician or senior civil servant; a female bureaucrat in an agency dealing with women's issues.
 * 2) * 2000, Jan Jindy Pettman, “Femocrats,” entry in Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender (editors) Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Education: Health to Hypertension, |%22femocrats%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JZBOT4npCqqTiAeTmblw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22femocrat%22|%22femocrats%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 847,
 * 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.
 * 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.