Women-only space

A women-only space is an area where only women (and in some cases children) are allowed, thus providing a place where they do not have to interact with men.

Men's rights activists have launched lawsuits to gain access to female-only spaces, as for example Stopps v Just Ladies Fitness (Metrotown) Ltd, regarding a gym in Canada.

Other systems of sex segregation include Afghanistan (Taliban treatment of women) and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).

The rise of first wave feminism, including the long struggles for the vote (suffrage) – for access to education and the professions (in English-speaking societies), led to various initiatives to widen women's possibilities.

that have or had their own premises (parallel to a gentlemen's club), and more recently women-only restaurants and networking events[20] Many celebrations, especially around rites of passage, are marked by a girl or woman and her female relatives and friends.

The anthropologist Wynne Maggi describes the communal bashali (large menstrual house) of women in the Kalasha Valley (northwestern Pakistan) as their 'most holy place', respected by men and serving as women's all-female organizing centre for establishing and maintaining gender solidarity and power.

The lactation room is a modern, mostly American phenomenon, designed for using electric breast pumps and refrigerating the expressed milk.

The period of postpartum confinement was traditionally a time for new mothers to learn to care for their infant from older and more experienced women.