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women's businessnoun [mass noun]1A subject or activity that is supposedly only of concern or interest to women: men too often feel that health is women’s business...- There ought not to be such a thing as "women's business".
- Everyone now takes fatherhood seriously, and bringing up kids is no longer seen as 'women's business'.
- They felt that we were all men, and we shouldn't be tinkering around with 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...- 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.
- My grandmother, my Great Aunt and my Aunty Rose passed these stories about Women's Business to me.
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