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Debate on Usage of 'Female' vs. 'Woman'
Public debate surrounding the appropriate usage of the terms 'female' versus 'woman' in everyday speech and in institutional capacities has existed since at least 1875. In the context of the United States suffragist movement of the nineteenth century, the term 'female' was used widely in place of the nouns 'women' or 'woman', even by suffragists decrying patriarchal society. Other terms in usage such as 'lady' or 'ladies' used to refer to 'women' were also called into question in the late nineteenth century.