challenges of womanhood
- noun
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desafíos de la feminidad
- She spoke openly about the challenges of womanhood and how they shaped her career.
Examples
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The novel addresses the challenges of womanhood through the experiences of its main character.
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Seminars on gender studies often highlight the challenges of womanhood in various cultures.
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The challenges of womanhood can be overwhelming at times.
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Many women face the challenges of womanhood throughout their lives.
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She spoke openly about the challenges of womanhood and how they shaped her career.
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The novel addresses the challenges of womanhood through the experiences of its main character.
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Seminars on gender studies often highlight the challenges of womanhood in various cultures.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'difficulties experienced by women' is directly and compositionally derived from 'challenge(s)' (difficult task) combined with 'womanhood' (the state/experience of being a woman) linked by the relational preposition 'of'. This genitive/of-construction is a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Challenges of womanhood paints a simple image: a woman carrying many heavy bags along a rough road. The word challenges are the hard things to carry and womanhood is the time of being a woman, so the phrase means the 'difficulties' women often face in life.