Women-only space

• Women-only bank
  • See also the kitty party, an informal savings club
• Women's parking space
• Women-only passenger car on a train
• Women's clubs that have or had their own premises (parallel to a gentlemen's club), and more recently women-only restaurants and networking events[10]
  • see List of women's club buildings as part of the US Woman's club movement
• Of this international list of women's organizations, some have their own premises; others such as the Women's Institute offer their members a women-only space for the duration of the meeting
• Community centres focusing on women, such as The Women's Building in San Francisco and Pankhurst Centre in Manchester
• Sex shops catering to women, such as Sh! Women's Erotic Emporium
• Feminist bookstores may have women-only and mixed-sex times
• Resorts such as SuperShe Island [11][12]
• Gyms[13]
• Spas[14] (see also section on public bathing, below)
• Hotels, either by floor[15][16], or as the entire business (e.g. the "urban retreat" and spa the Luthan Hotel in Riyadh[17] and Som Dona in Majorca[18], and capsule hotels in Japan[19])

Many celebrations, especially around rites of passage, are marked by a girl or woman and her female relatives and friends. For example, many cultures have a party before the wedding for the bride, in Western culture known as a hen night or bachelorette party. Parties for a pregnant woman are baby showers, usually attended by female friends and family.

Places to change one's clothes, for example for leisure (at the gym, swimming pool, or beach), or for work (locker rooms at factories and hospitals), or while shopping (department store fitting rooms), are usually single-sex. Some have individual cubicles, while others provide only communal facilities, e.g. an open space with benches and lockers.

• Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (closed after 40th anniversary in 2015)
• Nyansapo Festival, an Afro-feminist festival in Paris in 2017
• Mountain Moving Coffeehouse, a weekly music night in Chicago (1974-2005)
• Race for Life, a British charity event that raises money for cancer
• Marches to protest and celebrate, such as Take Back the Night and the Dyke March
• Yamurikuma, a gender role reversal festival of some Xingu tribes
• The Fainting Club, a supper club described as an old boys' club for girls

There are many other festivals, conferences, etc. that focus on women's achievements and women's issues, but allow anyone to attend, from the Rochester Women's Rights Convention of 1848 to today's Women of the World Festival.

• Girls' schools, i.e. single-sex education, see also Category:Girls' schools
• Women's colleges and universities
• Finishing school
• Sororities

When formal education was banned by the Taliban, underground schools sprung up, such as the Golden Needle Sewing School for writers to secretly discuss their work.

Historically, some health care services for women (particularly around childbirth) were staffed by women. As women gained increased access to education in the late nineteenth century, hospitals hired female physicians for female patients; nurses by this point were almost exclusively female.

• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital is named after one of Britain's first female physicians
• London School of Medicine for Women, the first medical school to train women as doctors

During second-wave feminism, health activists set up feminist health centers, particularly in the United States. Some places are for women from one background, such as the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center. Some holistic care centres are for mothers and their children, such as Nkosi's Haven in South Africa.

A family outside their hut in Umoja village

• Womyn's land, stemming from separatist feminism of the 1970s
• Anti-war activism such as Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the UK and Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice in the US
• Umoja, Kenya, a village of women and children fleeing domestic violence
• Jinwar, Syria, a village for women without a husband and their children
• Women's shelter, a place of temporary accommodation for women fleeing domestic violence, e.g. Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter
• Some homeless shelters are just for women, e.g. Rosie's Place
• Most rape crisis centers

• Cruises and vacation resorts such as those operated by Olivia Travel
• Lesbian bars such as the now-closed Candy Bar in London; The Lexington Club in San Francisco
• June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives
• Lesbian Connection network forum
• Lesbian Herstory Archives

Some menstrual taboos require a woman to stay at home, or avoid certain places such as temples, but other cultures assign a particular place to segregate herself from her community, for example the chhaupadi (menstrual huts) of Nepal today, or The Red Tent, a fictionalised version of Old Testament-era customs. 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.[20]

The seclusion of girls at puberty (i.e. menarche) is another such custom.

• Some countries operate or operated separate services for women, such as the UK's Women's Royal Air Force, see Category:All-female military units and formations
• Women's police station
• The incarceration of women is in most countries in single-sex prisons, or female-only wings within larger men's prisons, see Category:Women's prisons

The lactation room is a modern, mostly American phenomenon, designed for using electric breast pumps and refrigerating the expressed milk. In many countries, spaces for women to nurse their babies can be known as breastfeeding rooms or nursing areas. 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.

A restored lavoir in Belgium

Public nudity is in many cultures restricted to single-sex groups. So public baths may separate men and women by time or by space.

• Turkish bath, hammam, see especially its function as a gendered social space
• Mikveh, the Jewish ritual bath

Specific examples include:

• Frauenbad Stadthausquai, a public bath built in Switzerland in the late 19th century for women, and which still operates as such
• Hampstead Heath Ladies' Pond, a reservoir in a London park

In many cultures, laundry was seen as "women's work", so the village wash-house (lavoir) acted as a space for women to gather and talk together as they washed clothes.

• Thesmophoria in Ancient Greece
• Jivitputrika
• Karva Chauth, celebrated by Hindu women in Northern India

• Women's mosques, which have existed for centuries in China; in the 21st century, new examples have been created around the world
• More generally, the women's space in most mosques, see Gender separation in mosques
• Gender separation in Judaism, as for example the mechitza used to demarcate women's space in a synagogue
• Convent, the home of Christian nuns
• Double monastery, with separate space for monks (men) and nuns (women)
• Beguinage, all-women accommodation in the Low Countries (Belgium and the Netherlands)

Many amateur and most professional sports are segregated by sex.

In almost all countries, public toilets are segregated by sex.