Females having rows (9)

'females having rows' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'females having rows' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'females' could be 'women' (woman is a kind of female) and 'women' is present in the answer.
'rows' could be 'oars' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'oars' is present in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?