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Āveṇika Sutta

There are five special (āveṇika) woes which a woman has to undergo as distinct from a man:

at a tender age she goes to her husband’s family, leaving her relations;
she is subject to menses;
to pregnancy;
to labour at child-birth; and
she has to wait upon a man. S.iv.239.

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names • G.P. Malalasekera