I sense that someone will see grammar and language as petty elements in this conversation, but words matter:  Generally speaking, "female" is a biological term, not a social one, and it functions first as an adjective.  I notice here and in other discussions, that women are more frequently referred to as "females," than men are as "males," too, which seems to carry an essentialist color to the distinction.  Because we are not living in a zoology lab, I would prefer the social "women," than the biological one.  Either "male" or "female," translations from the Hebrew Bible notwithstanding, are reductive and not helpful.  Because this conversation is deeply affected by the biology of human beings and because few conversants are comfortable tackling that "body" element in this conversation, we obscure the foundations of gender assumption that arise from sexing a human being.  We long ago abandoned the terms "female doctors," "female pilots," "female checkout workers."