Meanings
plural childbearers
- One who gives birth to a child.
Nazi ideology, based on a belief in German racial supremacy, discriminated against women as childbearers.
2004, Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women
Origin
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