# women (social)

adult individuals who are female

- Computed level: L8 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: emergence  ·  Arena: women

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [family](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-family.social), [adult](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-adult.person), [female](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-female.sex)

**Through:** 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
- In 2020, New Zealand Parliament had 48 women among its 120 members, a record high for the country. *(institutions)*
- Serena Williams, a female athlete, competed in the 2019 US Open at age 37, qualifying as a woman in professional tennis. *(sports)*
- The 2017 Women's March drew over 500,000 participants in Washington, D.C., following the U.S. presidential inauguration. *(politics)*

## Used by
- [lesbian](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-lesbian.sexual) (L16)

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