as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and fertile women are capable of pregnancy...

Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during...

Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. At the beginning of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women...

Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th...

The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis. It governs the WTA Tour, which is the worldwide professional...

Women in refrigerators is a literary trope coined by Gail Simone in 1999 describing a trend in fiction which involves female characters facing disproportionate...

A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual...

hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls. It is a form of sexism that can keep women at a lower social status than men, thus maintaining...

The experiences of Muslim women (Arabic: مسلمات Muslimāt, singular مسلمة Muslimah) vary widely between and within different societies. At the same time...

"Why are you Spartan women the only ones who can rule men?" "Because we are also the only ones who give birth to men." Gorgo, Queen of Sparta and wife...

International Women's Day (IWD) is a holiday celebrated annually on March 8 as a focal point in the women's rights movement. IWD gives focus to issues...

100 Women may refer to: 100 Women (film), a 2002 comedy film 100 Women (BBC), a set of awards and a multi-format series established in 2013 by the BBC...

"Women and children first", known to a lesser extent as the Birkenhead drill, is an unofficial code of conduct whereby the lives of women and children...

The FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup (formerly FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women) is the women's international under-19 basketball...

The Ministry of Women and Child Development, a branch of the Government of India, is an apex body for formulation and administration of the rules and...

Rape of the Sabine Women (Latin: Sabinae raptae, Classical pronunciation: [saˈbiːnae̯ ˈraptae̯]; lit. 'the kidnapped Sabine women'), also known as the...

"Binders full of women" is a phrase that was used by Mitt Romney on October 16, 2012, during the second U.S. presidential debate of 2012. Romney used...

The status of women in India has been subject to many changes over the time of recorded India's history. Their position in society deteriorated early...

Chelsea Football Club Women, formerly known as Chelsea Ladies Football Club, are an English women's football club based in Kingston upon Thames, London...

Women (Ancient Greek: Τρῳάδες, romanized: Trōiades) is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides, produced in 415 BCE. Also translated as The Women...

Women of Wrestling (WOW), is an American women's professional wrestling promotion founded in 2000 by David McLane (who also founded Gorgeous Ladies of...

Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several method, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and...

Deadly Women is an American documentary television series focusing on true crime, specifically female killers. It first aired in 2005 on the Discovery...

FHM's 100 Sexiest Women was an annual listing compiled by the monthly British men's lifestyle magazine FHM, based on which women they believe to be the...

The women-are-wonderful effect is the phenomenon found in psychological and sociological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes...

Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), is violent acts primarily committed by...

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (1992) is a book written by American author and relationship counselor John Gray. The book states that most common...

Woman & Children may refer to: Men, Women & Children (album), debut album by the band with the same name (2006) Men, Women & Children (band), American electropop...

for Women (NCW) is a statutory body of the Government of India, generally concerned with advising the government on all policy matters affecting women. It...

Little Women is an 1868–69 novel by Louisa May Alcott. Little Women may also refer to: Little Women (1917 film), a British silent film directed by Alexander...