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Re:An Inventor Wants One Less Wire to Worry About by rbehrends on Monday August 19, 2013 @04:00AM (#6236125)
Grammatically, it's an apposition [1] and "woman" is still a noun. This particular construct is uncommon in English, but not all that rare, either. E.g.: Science museum, prime time television, district court judge.

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apposition

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Re:An Inventor Wants One Less Wire to Worry About by vacri on Monday August 19, 2013 @08:01PM (#6240730)
Thank you for the info, I hadn't come across that term before. There's still a difference in how we talk about men and women, which I find odd to engage in when trying to combat sexism, but I was unaware it was grammatically correct (and 'men [pastime]' just sounds wrong).
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