Definition of "women" []

• Plural of woman. (noun)

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• "And it's not any better if the writers are *women*, while perhaps not shocking indicates that there are many women writers and men who have not examined their assumptions about the way female characters should be, and why they're writing them that way."
• "We find any form of trans or genderqueer to be little more than more gender enforcement, more purveying of gender stereotypes, and more confining and disrespectful of women *as women* rather than less of any of these things."
• "If divorce nurtured such traits and often required women to use them in the workforce, then divorce was fully compatible with the larger goal of economic independence for women…."