{
  "id": "women.social",
  "term": "women",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "women",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "adult individuals who are female",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "family.social",
      "adult.person",
      "female.sex"
    ],
    "interaction": "people together with families, through recognizing maturity and sex differences, form the social category of women",
    "novel_properties": [
      "gendered social role",
      "adult female identity",
      "kinship-based status"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2020, New Zealand Parliament had 48 women among its 120 members, a record high for the country.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Serena Williams, a female athlete, competed in the 2019 US Open at age 37, qualifying as a woman in professional tennis.",
      "domain": "sports"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2017 Women's March drew over 500,000 participants in Washington, D.C., following the U.S. presidential inauguration.",
      "domain": "politics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "people.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "lesbian.sexual"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "woman",
    "women"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Original definition incorrectly omitted constitutive elements; revised to align with components and accurately reflect emergence from adult.person and female.sex within a social context."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-women.social"
}