The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word HAREM
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result HAREM
- Many concubines are kept by His Majesty
- Women's rooms provided by one fleet-of-foot male
- Women's place to run after male? The opposite!
- Arab in skirt found here
- Female group run by male
- In this, concubines are incarcerated by sovereign
- Wives here married after career
- Runner on form perhaps marks female group
- Women’s section starts to have arts review every month
- Court ladies using animal magnetism, primarily
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The straight part
We know that "Women’s section" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case women’s section = harem.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does HAREM mean?
HAREM noun- The private part of an Arab household, traditionally forbidden to male strangers.
- A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household.
- A group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes. Such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals, sea lions, baboons, and elephant seals.
- Any significant number of women together as a group; a bevy.
- A genre of anime and manga in which a man is the love interest of three or more women.