Examining some issues related to the tender sex.
THE distaff side? A distaff is a stick or spindle that was used in the past for holding wool or flax which was to be spun by hand; and spinning was a seeming preoccupation of women – from which came the term spinster – so that the word distaff, when used as a modifier, means “denoting or concerning women”.
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