Definition of "feminisation" [feminisation]

• Alternative spelling of feminization. (noun)

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• "Referring to what it called the feminisation of poverty, the report said since most workers were females, women were increasingly becoming victims of retrenchment when companies lay off staff because of lack of sufficient demand for products."
• "The team from City University argued that the shift towards human interest stories, encapsulated in the phrase "the feminisation of news", may be symptomatic of a broader cultural shift, arguing that favouring "more 'human' stories of civilian victims and some degree of emotional involvement, may be allowing women reporters more space for approaching war stories in their own way and, at the same time, allowing male correspondents to respond to the intensity of the war, without the 'macho' bravado often associated with the war correspondent"."
• "In many cases these issues have been seen to be compounded by the "feminisation" of learning, particularly in primary schools, where despite a decade of incentive schemes and policy initiatives, 85% of teachers are women, and nearly 5,000 schools have no male teachers at all."