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Women in punk rock
Women in punk rock: female musicians and organizers in punk since the mid-1970s, from the Slits and the Go-Go's to riot grrrl, Bikini Kill, and Pussy Riot, with documented barriers of sexism and erasure from punk histories.
Women in Russia
Women in Russia: their legal status, work, political representation, domestic violence, and reproductive rights under Soviet legacy and current restrictive laws, with key statistics.
Women in science
Women in science: women's participation and outcomes as researchers, about 33% of researchers globally, with field-specific evidence on funding gaps, citation and authorship credit, hiring, and UNESCO policy responses.
Women in Shang Hai (上海女子图鉴)
Women in Shang Hai (上海女子图鉴, Women in Shanghai) is a 2018 Youku web drama, 20 episodes, adapted from Tokyo Girl, starring Wang Zhen'er as Luo Haiyan, an Anhui graduate climbing Shanghai's workplace, directed by Cheng Liang.
Women in space
Women in space covers women as spaceflight crew, beginning with cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Sally Ride in 1983; 78 women had flown by March 2023.
Women in Taipei (台北女子图鉴)
Women in Taipei (台北女子圖鑑) is a 2022 Disney+ Taiwanese drama, a licensed adaptation of Tokyo Girl, starring Gwei Lun-mei as Tainan native Lin I-shan over 11 episodes spanning 20 years; it drew major backlash for north-south stereotypes.
Women in telegraphy
Women in telegraphy is the history of women working as telegraph operators from 1846, when Sarah George Bagley took charge of the Lowell, Massachusetts office.
Women in the Bible
Women in the Bible are the named and unnamed female figures of scripture, from matriarchs, prophets, and judges to disciples and deacons; fewer than 10 percent of named figures are women.
Women in the Comoros
Women in the Comoros: Muslim, matrilocal society with matrilineal descent on two islands; 2005 Family Code, 20.7% child marriage, 16.7% parliamentary seats held by women, 39% female labor force participation.
Women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
Women in the UK House of Commons: female MPs since the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918. First to sit: Nancy Astor (1919). Record 263 women (40%) elected at the July 2024 general election, 190 of them Labour.
Women in the Israel Defense Forces
Women in the Israel Defense Forces serve under mandatory conscription; first country to draft both sexes, with about 90% of positions and 21% of combat strength open to women after the 1995 Alice Miller ruling.
Women in the Middle Ages
Women in the Middle Ages, c. 5th to late 15th century Europe: legal status under male relatives, agricultural and urban work, guild participation, convent life, education, and figures like Christine de Pizan and Joan of Arc.
Women in the military
Women in the military: female service members in armed forces worldwide. Covers the 1948 US Women's Armed Services Integration Act, the 2015 opening of all US combat roles, injury and performance evidence, international shares, and health research.
Women in the military by country
Women in the military by country: compares conscription rules (Norway 2015, Denmark 2026, North Korea, Myanmar), combat-role access (US, UK, Ukraine), and women's shares of forces and UN peacekeeping contingents.
Women in the Philippines
Women in the Philippines: history from the 1905 Asociacion Feminista Filipina and 1937 suffrage to the Magna Carta of Women (RA 9710), plus current gender-gap, political representation, and violence statistics.
Women in the Quran
Women in the Quran, also called Female figures in the Qur'an, names only one woman, Maryam, mother of Jesus; other women appear as wives, mothers, or daughters.
Women in the United States House of Representatives
Women in the United States House of Representatives have served since Montana's Jeannette Rankin became the first woman in Congress in 1917, with 453 women serving since.
Women in the United States Senate
Women in the United States Senate, also called women senators, beginning with Rebecca Felton's 24-hour service in 1922; 65 women have served, with firsts including Hattie Caraway (first elected, 1932), Carol Moseley Braun, and Patty Murray.
Women in the Victorian era
Women in the Victorian era: status of British women, 1837-1901, under coverture, the angel-in-the-house ideal, the 1870 and 1882 Married Women's Property Acts, 1857 divorce law, girls' education, wage work, and women's role in Empire.
Women in the video game industry
Women in the video game industry work as developers, executives, and players while facing documented barriers in hiring, promotion, and harassment; they were 32% of surveyed developers in 2025.
Women in the workforce
Women in the workforce covers women's employment, pay, and working conditions. In 2024, 46.4 percent of working-age women were employed worldwide, versus 69.5 percent of men.
Women in Vietnam
Women in Vietnam make up 50.1% of the population. They benefit from strong legal frameworks, but they still face challenges like son preference and underrepresentation in leadership.
Women in World War I
Women in World War I, also called the Great War home front and women's war service, covers women's expanded roles in 1914-18: factory and farm work, nursing near the front, Yeoman (F) and Hello Girls service, Russian women combatants, and wartime suffrage gains.
Women in World War II
Women in World War II: American and British women's paid war work (over 6 million US factory workers, 7 million British women serving), women's military branches (WAC, WAVES, WASP), Soviet combat service, and long-run female employment effects.
Women in WWE
Women in WWE: female performers of WWE, once called Divas. Spans Fabulous Moolah's 1956-1984 title reign, the 2008 Divas Championship, and the 2015 Women's Evolution led by Lynch, Flair, and Banks, culminating in WrestleMania 35's first women's main event.
Women justices of US state supreme courts
Women justices of US state supreme courts: female members of the 52 state and DC high courts. First seated 1922 (Florence Allen, Ohio); now about 42 percent of seats, with 17 female-majority benches and 26 women chief justices as of 2025.
Women Lutheran bishops outside Europe
Women Lutheran bishops outside Europe are women elected as bishops in Lutheran churches outside Europe, about 14 percent of Lutheran bishops worldwide by the mid-2010s.
Women novelists
Women novelists are women who write novels, a subject covering when women entered the field, their changing share of publication and prizes, and the scholarly study of a distinct women's literary tradition.
Women of the Night (夜の女たち)
Women of the Night (夜の女たち, Yoru no onna-tachi) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1948 Shochiku drama, his postwar comeback, about two sisters descending into prostitution in ruined Osaka, shot neorealist-style on location with Kinuyo Tanaka.
Women of Trachis
Women of Trachis is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles that dramatizes the last day of Heracles' life on earth. He is poisoned by his wife Deianeira.