The argument that the male hierarchy of the church be substituted with women and lay people is misguided.

Within a community, there is a male hierarchy that is subject to what primatologists euphemistically call elections.

A girl in the male hierarchy apparently messes with the delicate order.

The good news for women, Dr. Fisher said, is that male hierarchies aren't what they used to be.

This behaviour would tend to immediately set who is the (sexual) aggressor, thus being a form to establish a male hierarchy.

Feminism would not seem to get much more radical than that: intimations of the priestess for a church ever dedicated to male hierarchy.

It is not easy for women to confront the male hierarchy on their turf and win, but we are headed in the right direction.

After many hundreds of experimental manipulations, the researchers still had difficulty pinning down the male hierarchy.

Hutchinson spoke her mind freely within the context of a male hierarchy unaccustomed to outspoken women.

There emerged a plateau for women on their way up, between the push of progress and the peak of the male hierarchy.