Usually means: Advocacy for women's caregiving roles.
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  1. maternalism: Merriam-Webster
  2. maternalism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. maternalism: Collins English Dictionary
  4. maternalism: Vocabulary.com
  5. maternalism: Wiktionary
  6. maternalism: Dictionary.com
  7. Maternalism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. maternalism: Rhymezone
  9. maternalism: FreeDictionary.org
  10. maternalism: Mnemonic Dictionary
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▸ noun:  The treatment of people in a motherly manner, especially by caring for them as a mother would care for her children.

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paternalism, motherment, mothering, motherling, motherlove, parentism, maternal, othermother, allomothering, matron, more...

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