A team lacking women in some area (4)
I believe the answer is:
acre
'some area' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'a team lacking women' is the wordplay.
'team' becomes 'crew' (crew is a kind of team).
'lacking' is a deletion indicator.
'women' becomes 'w'.
'crew' with 'w' taken out is 'cre'.
'a'+'cre'='ACRE'
'in' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for acre that I've seen before include "Imperial unit of area" , "Persistent tendency" , "Imperial land measurement" , "Old unit of area - old port" , "Measure of land area" .)