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Women's Institute

British

noun

(in Britain and Commonwealth countries) a society for women interested in the problems of the home and in engaging in social activities

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You can find details about them in “Getting Your Legal Documents and Support in Order,” an online guide from the SOA Research Institute and the Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026

Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest reigning monarch, who died at the age of 96, had been president of the Women's Institute branch in Sunningdale.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025

She was very active within her church and the Women's Institute, and took a job with a neighbouring family so she could be at home for the children returning from school every day.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2025

Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, an economist who is president of the Women’s Institute for Society, Equity and Race, said she welcomed the broadening of the Fed’s leadership.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2022

I simply couldn’t endure those Women’s Institute meetings which open with a hymn and end up with sponge-cake and green tea, after a platitudinous paper on the Beauty of Prairie Life.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)

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