Does this sound more like a patriarchy or an aristocracy?

I came across the following in an Atlantic article on Ursula Franklin, a female scientist who'd also consider herself a feminist:

I constantly emphasize that the issue is not essentially gender. The issue is patriarchy. I must say that I myself have been surprised at the rapid rise of lady patriarchs. And of course there are lady patriarchs. I was surprised how easily young women who have all options open for patriarchy become as much the patriarch in a hierarchical structure as any man does; and conversely, how many men—how many men, not that many—have found a collaborative structure convenient and don’t pull rank.

... And when you say “lady patriarchs,” what do you mean?
I mean women who behave as if they are generals or bishops. It makes no difference in many ways if it’s a woman or a man. In particular positions, a woman can be as inconsiderate a lady patriarch as a male patriarch would have been. So the issue is the hierarchical structuring; the issue is patriarchy.

I tend to view feminist use of "the patriarchy" similar to how I view use of the term "the bogeyman"(and with about as much substantiating evidence). What's interesting about Franklin's definition of "patriarchy" is that it's not all that close to how a place like Dictionary.com or Google defines the term. It seems a lot closer to aristocracy. Had she used this latter word I don't think that I'd have as much to disagree with.

I don't think it's possible to run massive organizations without at least some people acting as leaders in a certain official (and inevitably to-an-extent-hierarchical) capacity. To me the main question is how (and to what extent to push) to ensure that selection for these roles is based on merit as much as possible - having both the skills and demonstrated willingness to put in the effort required. My notion of merit for leadership position tends to incorporate effort-based criteria which I make no apologies for - as I've mentioned before leadership positions tend to require putting in a lot more hours than the average person.