Actually, a chauvinist is one who follows Chauvin's philosophy, which were idolization for the past, hyper-nationalism (negatively to the point of jingoism), and a love (negatively a fetishization) of history.

There's nothing actually about women in Chauvinism. They just made it all about themselves when it had nothing to do with them. Which I know is highly out of character for women, my good expert on their nature you'd know that of course.