petticoat government

The phrase Petticoat Government has referred to women running government or domestic affairs.

I am under petticoat government here."

She survived the exit of disaffected young men in the 1790s and sustained "petticoat government" for 25 years.

Author David Green noted, "Hers was not, as used to be supposed, petticoat government.

In 1925, she ran for mayor and was elected, along with an all-woman government, which became known as the "Petticoat Government".

He lost to his Conservative opponent, who campaigned on the slogan "No Petticoat Government".

Petticoat government.

"Mr. Spencer is under petticoat government, that is certain.")

"Petticoat government" and paternalism must be replaced by a supportive approach wherein each staff member is valued and trusted as a responsible adult.

This, for one so thorougbly subject to petticoat government, with all his goings and comings minutely regulated, was no mean problem.

Petticoat Government (1910)

Petticoat Government: a Novel (1850)

Baroness Emma Orczy wrote Petticoat Government, another novel, in 1911.

Also their tendency toward "petticoat government", a term used by a Shaker named Philemon Stewart, aroused suspicion among local men.

Frances Milton Trollope wrote Petticoat Government: A Novel in 1850.

Petticoat Government was written by Baroness Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, in 1910.

An Irish pamphlet Petticoat Government, Exemplified in a Late Case in Ireland was published in 1780.

"Weary of Petticoat Government": The Specter of Female Rule in Early Nineteenth-Century Shaker Politics."

Yours ever H. W. Petticoat government] George III was brought up by his mother, the Dowager Princess Augusta.

"If I had to Study the Female Trait: Philemon Stewart, 'Petticoat Government' Issues and Later Nineteenth-Century Shakerism."

The period is referred to by some historians as "the Petticoat Government", suggesting that the 'foster mother cohort' attempted to keep Akbar as a puppet ruler after Bairam Khan's death.

The "Petticoat Government" also received the attention of Lady Astor, a member of the British Parliament who expressed a desire to visit Clintwood and to see how the experiment was going.

Rip, in fact, was no politician; the changes of states and empires made but little impression on him; but there was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was- petticoat government.

The City however have a mind to be out of humour; a paper has been fixed on the Royal Exchange with these words, 'No petticoat government, no Scotch minister, no Lord George Sackville.'

But when men wish to be safely impressive, as judges, priests or kings, they do wear skirts, the long, trailing robes of female dignity The whole world is under petticoat government; for even men wear petticoats when they wish to govern.