Why dictionary men team excluded the words related to women?

A Novel 'The Dictionary of Lost Words' is written by the New York Times bestseller author Pip Williams which consists of 416 pages.

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She was secretly accumulating lost words that lexicographers thought words were outdated, obsolete and therefore couldn't be included in the compiling of first Oxford English Dictionary.

The hiding place that Esme was sitting was beneath the sorting table where her father was busy working with the team of dictionary men. Among the lost word that she grappled from flying slip was bondmaid. She then researched the meaning of word and got the meaning ''slave girl''.

Esme lost her mother in her early years of childhood, lived with his father in Scriptorium - known as shed of Oxford garden, a place to work  where team of lexicographers gathered to decide final selection of words to be included in first Oxford English Dictionary.

Esme resented the move when dictionary men team thrown away the words related to women. She became so disgruntled that Esme took initiative, begin making Dictionary of Lost Words by her own. But it was not a piece of cake and required awareness and support from likeminded group of folks who keeping common mutual interest. 

It was the era when Great War was about to begin, and where woman rights movement gathered momentum. How Esme would muster support of likeminded people for her making of own The Dictionary of Lost Words?

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