Forbes’ McGrath Credits Dobbs Decision, KBJ for ‘Woman’ Being Chosen as Dictionary.com’s ‘Word of the Year’

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McGRATH: “The biggest jump came in March. There was a 1,400% surge in people looking for the word 'woman,' and that was because of the Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court. She was asked, 'Can you define the word 'woman?'' And she basically said 'No, I can’t,' and then in a followup question the next day she said, 'I know that I am a woman.' And I think that’s what a lot of us would say. That’s also what dictionary.com says. They said, 'You know, we’re not the final authority on this. The word belongs to women and how they define it for themselves.'"
BRZEZINSKI: "And what other crucial moments involving women that happened in the past year that really resulted in the uptick in people searching it and obviously the word being chosen as the word of the year?"
McGRATH: "Of course, the Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, we saw a surge there and related searches to the word 'autonomy,' meaning freedom and independence. We saw surges around the U.S. women's soccer team equal pay settlement, the $24 million settlement that was announced this year. We saw similar surges around the death of Mahsa Amini and the remarkable protests we’ve seen in Iran for women’s rights and human rights.”