1A subject or activity that is supposedly only of concern or interest to women.
men too often feel that health is women's business
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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
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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.