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Definition of women's business in English: women's businessnoun mass noun1A subject or activity that is supposedly only of concern or interest to women. men too often feel that health is women's business Example sentencesExamples - They felt that we were all men, and we shouldn't be tinkering around with women's business.
- I am not well versed in "women's business".
- These days, women's organizations are still too often overlooked: locally because they are dismissed as women's business and elsewhere because they are not secular.
- The four women councillors meet some resistance from the 11 male councillors - mostly bearded, conservative men who declare certain subjects "not women's business".
- Everyone now takes fatherhood seriously, and bringing up kids is no longer seen as 'women's business'.
- There ought not to be such a thing as "women's business".
- 1.1Australian Aboriginal rituals and knowledge open only to initiated females.
there have been several accounts of what the women's business consisted of Example sentencesExamples - An anthropologist hired by the developers of the marina complex did not mention the existence of this women's business.
- Over the generations, older women taught the script to young women, and it came to be seen as a sort of 'women's business', something women enjoyed doing but men left well alone.
- When the women's business was done, I went with Joan and her boy and William back to the stone house.
- He draws attention to another component of the women's business, that it was linked with a myth concerning the Pleiades, or the 'Seven Sisters', a common mythological motif throughout Aboriginal Australia.
- My grandmother, my Great Aunt and my Aunty Rose passed these stories about Women's Business to me.
- The heart of the women's business is to do with the prohibition on things lying between sky and water.
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