Woman’s success if adopting a left-wing stance (8)
I believe the answer is:
winifred
'stance' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'woman's success if adopting a left-wing' is the wordplay.
'woman' becomes 'w' (abbreviation eg in Woman Police Constable).
'success' becomes 'ni' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'adopting' indicates putting letters inside.
'a left wing' becomes 'red' (I've seen this in other clues).
'ni' inserted inside 'if' is 'inif'.
'w'+'inif'+'red'='WINIFRED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for winifred that I've seen before include "Woman" , "Female name" .)