women's business

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Noun

women's business (uncountable)

  1. In Australian Indigenous culture: cultural practies which are the exclusive preserve of women, especially ceremonies which are only open to women.
    • 2022, Annalise Ingham, Northern Territory Literary Awards, page 53:
      We've been doing women's business all day. This too was women's business. If I couldn't trust an Elder, a healer, with my secrets, who could I?
  2. (Australia, colloquial, humorous) Subjects which women generally prefer to discuss amongst themselves rather than with men.