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2023 International WOMEN'S Day
A time when the official definition of woman had to be reviewed and updated.
What is the modern definition of a woman?
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A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural women is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardless of age.
Cambridge Dictionary has updated the definition of 'woman', to make it more inclusive, and adaptive to changing times.
A woman can now be defined as "an adult who lives and identifies as female despite having been said to have a different sex at birth," according to the new Cambridge Dictionary definition.
The dictionary also cited some examples according to the new definition. "She was the first trans woman elected to a national office" and "Mary is a woman who was assigned male at birth."
Earlier, Merriam-Webster added an additional definition of 'female' that defines the term as "having a gender identity that is the opposite of male".
The definition of 'man' has also been updated by the Cambridge Dictionary. As well as definitions including "an adult male human being" and "the human race", it now includes the definition, "an adult who lives and identifies as a male though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth".
What is your definition of a woman?
