Women vs. desire of the ring

They weren't women though, they were evil spiders. The fact that they were female evil spiders was significant, of course, but in a different context.

This is a distinction I was trying to imply--the concept of female vs. the concept of woman. My level of scholarship may not be expert enough, but I do not recall female elves ever referred to as "women"--in fact, now that I'm thinking of it, while the word itself must surely occur, my subjective memory cannot recall Tolkien ever using "woman." I'm not sure I would call Galadriel or Arwen "women."

At any rate, I think that the question about gender sex & temptation is on the more fundamental level of female/male more than man/woman.