women
Grown female humans
Women is the plural of woman—adult female humans.
The word appears in compounds emphasizing female participation or perspective: women's rights, women's studies, women's health.
The women in my family are all teachers.
Calling a group "women" rather than "ladies" or "girls" is generally the neutral, respectful choice.
Ability to direct others
- equalitySame status for all
- independenceFreedom from external control
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- rightsJustified claims to freedoms
advocacy · activism · liberation · agency · education · entrepreneurship · confidence · resilience
Gene-bearing nuclear structures
- estrogenFemale reproductive hormone
- ovariesEgg-producing organs
- anatomyStudy of organism structure
- reproductiveRelated to producing offspring
menstruation · maternity · breasts · uterus · vagina · endometrium · fallopian · progesterone
State of being a female parent
- caregiverOne providing daily assistance
- homemakerOne who manages a household
- daughterFemale child of parents
- sisterFemale sibling
grandmother · aunt · matriarch · breadwinner · professional · worker · activist · leader
Interconnected identity-based discrimination study
- representationDepiction or likeness
- inclusionBeing made part
- multiculturalIncluding multiple ethnic traditions
- spectrumContinuous range of values
demographics · equity · solidarity · sisterhood · indigenous · diaspora · immigrant · rural
Militant women's voting advocate
- trailblazerFirst to forge ahead
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- matrilinealDescended through maternal line
- ancestressFemale from whom one descends
lineage · herstory · foremothers · legacy · movement · revolution · struggle · progress
Effortless beauty of motion
- eleganceRefined, graceful quality
- softnessYielding to gentle pressure
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
- gentlenessSoft, kind demeanor
sensitivity · intuition · empathy · beauty · tenderness · poise · charm · warmth
leadership
Ability to direct others
- equalitySame status for all
- independenceFreedom from external control
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
rights · advocacy · activism · liberation · agency · education · entrepreneurship · confidence · resilience · strength
chromosomes
Gene-bearing nuclear structures
reproductive · menstruation · maternity · breasts · uterus · vagina · endometrium · fallopian · progesterone · hormones
motherhood
State of being a female parent
- caregiverOne providing daily assistance
- homemakerOne who manages a household
- daughterFemale child of parents
sister · grandmother · aunt · matriarch · breadwinner · professional · worker · activist · leader · elder
intersectionality
Interconnected identity-based discrimination study
- representationDepiction or likeness
- inclusionBeing made part
- multiculturalIncluding multiple ethnic traditions
spectrum · demographics · equity · solidarity · sisterhood · indigenous · diaspora · immigrant · rural · urban
suffragette
Militant women's voting advocate
- trailblazerFirst to forge ahead
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- matrilinealDescended through maternal line
ancestress · lineage · herstory · foremothers · legacy · movement · revolution · struggle · progress · milestones
grace
Effortless beauty of motion
gentleness · sensitivity · intuition · empathy · beauty · tenderness · poise · charm · warmth · caring
- womenmothers, females, gals, daughters, girls
- humanspeople, mankind, humanity, humans, men
- populationspatients, inpatients, outpatients, elderly patients, stroke patients
- pluralsmen, feet, mice, geese, lice
- gender identitiesmale, female, man, men, transgender
- haremconcubines, eunuchs, wives, concubine, eunuch
- young womanFemale youth
- old womanAged female person
- men and womenAdult humans collectively
- God's gift to womenSelf-proclaimed ultimate catch
- man and womanPair of opposite sexes
- pregnant womanFemale carrying unborn offspring
woman, womanly, womb, womanhood, womanizer, womankind, womanliness, women's, womanize