Satirist's riddle about women (5)
I believe the answer is:
swift
'satirist's' is the definition.
(Jonathan Swift)
'riddle about women' is the wordplay.
'riddle' becomes 'sift' (riddle can mean to sieve or sift).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'women' becomes 'w'.
'sift' going around 'w' is 'SWIFT'.
(Other definitions for swift that I've seen before include "Quick-moving" , "Fast - novelist" , "writer of satire" , "Fast; bird; writer" , "Happening quickly; author" .)