[Dance-with-me]

It's important to look at the historical context for "women's music." At the time the genre was formed (and named) there far fewer female musical artists who were empowered to control their own content, image, or anything else about their works and their careers, than there are today. "Women's music" was a genre where the music was created by women and for women and most of the time with a majority of women in the invisible roles: Producers, musicians, background vocals, engineers, etc. But while most women who aligned themselves with this genre were lesbian (and many of their songs celebrated love between women) many were not.

Trivia: The genre was also (at least at first) very heavily biased towards folky acoustic music, which is why the primary label for women's music in the 70's and 80's, Olivia Records, rejected the music of a hard-rocking Lesbian named Melissa Etheridge, thinking that she would have no appeal in the "women's music" community...