OUP, Oxford Dictionary of English, offensive, derogatory, definition of woman, petition, open letter, change neededAn institution like the Oxford University Press   should not portray women this way.

‘Bitch, besom, piece, bit, mare, baggage, wench, petticoat, frail, bird, bint, biddy, filly’ – these are the words which the Oxford’s English Dictionary online tells us mean the same as ‘woman’.

And it gives the following examples as meanings:

‘Ms September will embody the professional, intelligent yet sexy career woman’;

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