womanosphere

English

Etymology

From woman +‎ -o- +‎ -sphere, by analogy with manosphere.

Noun

womanosphere (plural womanospheres)

  1. (Internet) The collection of blogs and websites that focus on women's issues.
    • 2024 April 17, David Sasaki, “The emotionally immature lives of men and women”, in The Time Capsule[1]:
      Instead, we retreat into our gender-segregated media spaces where the manosphere extols stoicism and the womanosphere celebrates emotional vulnerability.
    • 2025 April 24, Anna Silman, “Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
      Yet for this new womanosphere, the response is not advancing policies like paid family leave or affordable childcare, but to return to an idealized, illusory past where being a wife and mother was viewed as a woman’s sole purpose.