female plug

"It's like a female plug and an electrical outlet," she says.

Hawks-aren't there female plugs for these at each station?"

(A gender changer, in case you were wondering, is a gizmo that changes a male plug into a female plug, or vice versa.)

OUTPUT: XLR female plug (cable) mates to XLR male jack (device)

Thus, for example, one can have a mixed-gender female plug that connects to a mixed-gender male jack (though a reversed gender assignment of connectors would be a more typical design choice in this example).

In a different design, if the power adapter were intended to supply a voltage sufficient to cause electrical shock, the semi-exposed center contact of the female plug would be considered unacceptably hazardous, requiring a different choice of power connector.

A commonly seen coaxial power connector is usually set up so that power is fed from the female plug on the right into the male jack on the left (which is typically a part of the electronic device accepting the power).