war on women
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- noun
- Offensive
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guerra contra las mujeres
- Is this a sign of a small truce in the war on women?
- waging a war on women
- Republican war on women
- Democrats' war on women
They have set their sights on birth control and IVF and it is an all out war on women.
- They have set their sights on birth control and IVF and it is an all out war on women.
- The MAGA war on women is so out of control I literally cannot take it anymore.
- So the psychological take away from the war on women right now, I believe starts with religion and ends with envy.
Examples
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I have a question for anyone who claims Republicans are engaging in a "war on women" or something like that.
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And what about the GOP's real war on women with real-world impact economically, medically, and socially on our lives?
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Who is it exactly that has a war on women?
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It's not a war on women; it's a war on abortion.
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Despite the GOP war on women, this year women scored huge victories in the recent election.
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Why aren't women pissed off enough to fight back against the war on women?
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What has been offensive to this woman is the "war on women" by Democrats and how insulting they have been.
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Anyone who thinks there's no war on women hasn't been paying attention.
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There is a real, life-and-death war on women in the Middle East—everywhere.
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During the recent campaign, discussions about healthcare highlighted the ongoing war on women in our society.
Synonyms
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Unfair acts and ideas about people because of their sex, often against women
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Unfair treatment of people because of their sex, often at work
Antonyms
How Hostile
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase uses the productive metaphorical pattern 'war on + [group/issue]' so a learner who knows 'war', 'on', and 'women' can plausibly infer it means an organized or sustained campaign against women. However, the political and policy-specific nuance (systematic discrimination rather than literal armed conflict) is somewhat metaphorical and context-dependent, so full interpretation may require prior exposure.
Etymology
War on women uses the strong image of a war, a public fight aimed at women, to describe laws or actions that hurt their rights. So the phrase means 'unfair treatment' of women.