I’m not a native English speaker, so forgive my ignorance, but isn’t “women” a noun, not an adjective? Why not just say “female artists” or “female writers”?
As a side note, I’ve also literally never seen anyone say “men artists” or “men writers”. What gives?
By this I meant that people more often say something like “male nurse” than “man nurse”, but I agree, fuck the patriarchy.
Because male nurses are uncommon and in that specific circumstance female is the default that most people assume.