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Woman Sesame Oil Maker (香魂女)
Woman Sesame Oil Maker (香魂女, Xiang hun nü) is Xie Fei's 1993 Chinese drama, adapted from Zhou Daxin's novella, starring Siqin Gaowa; it shared the 1993 Berlin Golden Bear with The Wedding Banquet.
Woman to Man
Woman to Man is a 1949 poetry collection by Australian poet Judith Wright, exploring love, sexuality, and pregnancy; it won the 1949 Grace Leven Prize.
Woman Unknown (film)
Woman Unknown (Kvinde ukendt) is a 2026 Danish-Swedish-Latvian drama by May el-Toukhy about a post-WWII Danish housemaid hiding an affair with a German soldier; it won the 2026 Venice Golden Lion and the Volpi Cup for Mathilde Arcel.
Woman Walks Ahead
Woman Walks Ahead is a 2017 Western drama directed by Susanna White, starring Jessica Chastain, Michael Greyeyes, and Sam Rockwell, about Caroline Weldon painting Sitting Bull; released by A24 in 2018.
Woman Who Knows Latin
Woman Who Knows Latin (Mujer que sabe latín...) is a 1973 collection of 35 essays by the Mexican writer Rosario Castellanos examining the condition of women in Mexican culture.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), founded 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio; also World's WCTU (1883). Christian women's temperance organization led by Frances Willard under the "Do Everything" policy; major force behind U.S. Prohibition and woman suffrage amendments.
Woman's World (Katy Perry song)
"Woman's World" (WOMAN'S WORLD), Katy Perry's dance-pop single of July 11, 2024 and lead single of album 143, co-written and produced with Dr Luke; an intended female-empowerment anthem that met near-universal criticism, a disputed satire defense, and a No. 63 Hot 100 debut.
Womanism
Womanism: feminist framework centering women of color, especially Black women, coined by Alice Walker in late-1970s fiction and her 1983 In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens; distinct from mainstream feminism and Black feminism, later expanded into womanist theology and Africana womanism.
Womanizer (song)
Womanizer is a 2008 electropop single by Britney Spears, the lead single from Circus, written by the Outsyders; it jumped from 96 to 1 on the Hot 100 and won the 2009 VMA for Best Pop Video.
Womb (2025 film)
Womb (2025 film) most commonly denotes the American horror thriller directed by Bridget Smith, written by Mike Walsh, starring Taylor Hanks and Myles Clohessy, released digitally February 11, 2025; the title was also used by 2025 shorts from New Zealand, South Korea, and Czechia.
Womb (film)
Womb (2010), also released as Clone, is a German-Hungarian-French sci-fi drama by Benedek Fliegauf starring Eva Green and Matt Smith, about a woman who bears and raises a clone of her dead lover.
Womb (music)
Womb is an electronic dance music club in the Maruyamacho district of Shibuya, Tokyo, opened in April 2000 and regarded as one of Japan's most important electronic music venues.
Wombat
Wombat: stocky burrowing Australian marsupial of family Vombatidae; three species, bare-nosed (Vombatus ursinus), southern and northern hairy-nosed (Lasiorhinus); digs burrows up to 30 m, grazes native grasses, northern species Critically Endangered.
Wombat feces
Wombat feces (Vombatus ursinus droppings) are the only known cube-shaped animal feces, molded in the last 17% of the intestine by alternating stiff and soft muscle bands, very dry, and used in latrines for territory marking.
Women (女人心)
Women (女人心, Nüren xin) is Stanley Kwan's 1985 Hong Kong directorial debut, a Shaw Brothers drama starring Chow Yun-fat, Cora Miao, and Cherie Chung about a divorcée and her single friends; it earned nine Hong Kong Film Award nominations.
Women Against State Pension Inequality
WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) is a UK campaign group founded in 2015 seeking compensation for 3.6 million 1950s-born women over inadequate notice of State Pension age increases; the 2024 Ombudsman report found maladministration, but the government rejected compensation.
Women Airforce Service Pilots
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) was a civilian organization of women who flew noncombat military missions, ferrying and testing aircraft, for the US Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1944.
Women ambassadors
Women ambassadors are women serving as heads of diplomatic missions; their share rose from under 1% in 1968 to 23.4% in 2024, led by Nordic countries.
Women and children first
Women and children first, known as the Birkenhead drill, is a maritime evacuation custom under which women and children board lifeboats before men when a ship sinks.
Women and Children First
Women and Children First, Van Halen's third studio album (March 26, 1980, Warner Bros.), their first all-original-songs record; produced by Ted Templeman at Sunset Sound, heavier tone, Wurlitzer debut, Nicolette Larson guest vocal, peaked at number 6 and went triple Platinum.
Women and Economics
Women and Economics is an 1898 nonfiction book by American writer and sociologist Charlotte Perkins Gilman arguing that women's economic dependence on men harms both sexes and society.
Women and video games
Women and video games: women's role as players, developers, esports competitors, and characters. Women are near parity as players (46% of US gamers) but underrepresented in industry (20%), esports (5%), and face harassment.
Women bishops in Nordic Lutheran churches
The Nordic Lutheran churches were among the first to consecrate women bishops, starting with Norway's Rosemarie Köhn in 1993 and Sweden's Christina Odenberg in 1997.
Women chefs with Michelin stars
Women chefs with Michelin stars: female chefs leading MICHELIN-starred restaurants, also called starred cheffes. About 6% of starred restaurants worldwide are female-led; Anne-Sophie Pic, Dominique Crenn, Clare Smyth, and Hélène Darroze hold three stars each.
Women drone operators in the Ukrainian military
Women drone operators in the Ukrainian military, also called female UAV or FPV pilots, serve in drone combat and support roles since the 2022 invasion; over 70,000 women serve overall, drone pilot is a top female combat profession, and all-female units like Typhoon's Hilka crew and the Harpies have formed.
Women in ancient Rome
Women in ancient Rome: female inhabitants of the Roman state, from enslaved workers and freedwomen to Vestals and imperial women. Barred from voting and office, they held property, ran businesses, and served as priestesses.
Women in ancient Sparta
Women in ancient Sparta, female Spartan citizens, could own and inherit land, trained athletically, and drew criticism from Aristotle and praise from Plutarch; sources are mostly non-Spartan and shaped by the Spartan mirage.
Women in aviation
Women in aviation have worked as pilots, engineers, mechanics, and astronauts since powered flight began, starting within five years of the Wright brothers' 1903 flight.
Women in aviation in the Soviet Union
Women in aviation in the Soviet Union set 1930s record flights and flew combat missions in World War II, forming three all-women regiments, including the Night Witches.
Women in aviation in the United States
Women in aviation in the United States is the history of American women as pilots, military aviators, and flight attendants, from the first licensed women of 1910–1911 onward.