The system of such rule of families by senior males is called 'patriarchy'.
Every year around February a senior male is selected by his classmates as "Northman".
Neither did he renounce past decisions protecting more senior white males from job layoffs.
A senior male, father or eldest brother, functioned as chief, with fairly broad authority over the affairs of the household and its members.
The competitions are open to all senior male and female hockey teams within the county of Cornwall.
For example, the senior males found buried with daggers were originally placed in the grave lying on their left side.
He was not the senior male in the house after his mother's marriage.
The title is hereditary and descends to the senior male by agnatic primogeniture.
As the senior male, Jake knew this part of the ceremony would fall to him.
Eddie's the senior male in the family.