What is a Petticoat Government?
It is female rule, whether they hold office or influence a male officer. There was a so-called petticoat government that angered President Andrew Jackson, because powerful people didn’t like the questionable background of the wife of one of his cabinet members, or for that matter, Jackson’s own wife, whom he had taken up with while she was still married to another. There is a period in Roman Empire history where a cadre of women held sway over a couple of emperors. There are many such examples in history.
