The word womanhood is defined as ‘the state of being a
woman’ (Definition of WOMANHOOD, n.d.), simply that the
word needs no other definition than being of the female gender.
Although the definition of the word is remarkably simple
the connotations that come with the word womanhood refer
to a woman’s qualities, even though there is no one way to
categorise every woman in the world into one word. The word
womanhood is designed to do just that, it is meant to be a
general word that describes all women and how they should
act and behave in the presence of others. The constructed
qualities of a woman that come along with that word, that
all women are gentle and sensitive and delicate, have grown
over time.
