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women's work

women's work noun: work of inferior status, especially the collective housework tasks traditionally performed by females in a home.

Noun

women's work (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, offensive) Work of inferior status, especially the collective housework tasks traditionally performed by females in a home.

Synonyms of women's work

Questions about women's work

What does women's work mean?
Women's work means work of inferior status, especially the collective housework tasks traditionally performed by females in a home.
What part of speech is women's work?
Women's work is a noun.

Words near women's work in the dictionary

  1. women's rooms
  2. women's shelter
  3. women's shelters
  4. women's studies
  5. women's troubles
  6. women's work
  7. women-born-women
  8. women-centric
  9. women-children
  10. womenandchildren
  11. womencentric

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