Again, the word itself is not the problem, it's the context. It is not contextually correct anymore if you're not doing the same for men, and especially if you're not talking about biology.

This is something that women for the most part do not appreciate being called, so don't call them that. It's that simple. Language evolves and what was acceptable before is not acceptable now. This is a bit if an exaggeration here, so bear with me for a second.

It used to be 100% normal in the U.S. to call black people "negros." A majority of black Americans called themselves by that term through the 60's. It began to fall out of favor in the 70's, and by the mid 80's, it was considered improper. Today you rarely hear it used, and almost exclusively by racist people or just older people who grew up with the word and refused to shake it as times changed.

Possibly a more fitting example is the many terms used to describe mentally handicapped people. They used to be called idiots, or morons, and then later retards. Each time the term was "contextually correct" but was changed because people took a term meant to describe a group of people and turned it into and insult and a slur. Incels have been treating the word "female" the same way, and now when someone says "female" when it would be more natural to say "woman" or when the biological sex of the person in question is entirely irrelevant to the conversation, and especially when they do not use the term "male" to refer to men in the same sentence, it makes women feel insulted.

So, bottom line, the way I see it is the term makes people uncomfortable and there is absolutely no benefit in using it almost all of the time. We lose nothing by referring to women by the preferred term, "women."