Gloria's arranged housing for eastern women here (8)
I believe the answer is:
seraglio
'women here' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how they can define each other.
'gloria's arranged housing for eastern' is the wordplay.
'arranged' indicates an anagram (letters rearranged).
'housing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'for' becomes 'es' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'eastern' says the letters should be written backwards (letters written right to left or east to west).
'es' back-to-front is 'se'.
'gloria' with letters rearranged gives 'raglio'.
'raglio' placed around 'se' is 'SERAGLIO'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for seraglio that I've seen before include "Gaoler is found in kind of harem" , "Female apartments" , "female quarters" , "Group of women" , "single-sex accommodation" .)