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Women's Cricket World Cup
Women's Cricket World Cup, the ICC's 50-over women's cricket championship, first held 1973 in England before the men's event; Australia has seven titles, India won their maiden 2025 title beating South Africa.
Women's empowerment
Women's empowerment, or the empowerment of women, is the process by which women gain agency over their lives, resources, and opportunities, a goal of UN policy since the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action.
Women's Equality Day
Women's Equality Day, a U.S. observance on August 26, commemorates the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote; designated by Congress in 1973 after Bella Abzug's resolution.
Women's Equality Party
The Women's Equality Party (WEP) was a British feminist party founded in 2015 by Catherine Mayer and Sandi Toksvig, led by Sophie Walker then Mandu Reid, peaking near 60,000 members, and voluntarily deregistered on 31 December 2024.
Women's erotica
Women's erotica: sexually explicit material centered on women's desire and pleasure, defined against pornography by Longino and Steinem, rooted in the feminist sex wars, now spanning fiction, audio, and feminist pornography.
Women's FA Cup
The Women's FA Cup is the largest knockout cup competition in English women's football, first contested in 1970-71 and run by The FA since 1993.
Women's fear of crime
Women's fear of crime: the consistent finding that women report more fear of crime than men despite lower victimization, the fear–victimization paradox, its explanations (shadow of sexual assault, vulnerability, feminist geography), and behavioral costs.
Women's FIS Alpine Ski World Cup seasons, 1967–1979
The women's FIS Alpine Ski World Cup seasons, 1967–1979 cover the series' first thirteen seasons, which began at Berchtesgaden in January 1967 with 17 races won by Canada's Nancy Greene.
Women's FIS Alpine Ski World Cup seasons, 1980–1999
The women's FIS Alpine Ski World Cup seasons from 1980 to 1999, covering overall and giant slalom champions from Hanni Wenzel to Alexandra Meissnitzer, tied titles, and the shift from 25-point to 100-point race wins.
Women's football in England
Women's football in England, also known as women's soccer in England, is the FA-governed sport, banned in 1921 and now the top participation sport for women and girls.
Women's football in Scotland
Women's football in Scotland: the women's game from the 1881 Scotland-England international to the SPFL-run Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL), two 10-team leagues from 2025/26, 160 professional players, and over 1,000 grassroots teams.
Women's health
Women's health: branch of medicine covering women's physical and emotional well-being across the life course, beyond reproductive care. Defined by WHO life-course framing, the 1993 NIH Revitalization Act, and persistent research gaps.
Women's Health Initiative
Women's Health Initiative (WHI), NHLBI-sponsored US study launched 1991: 161,808 postmenopausal women at 40 centers in three randomized trials (hormone therapy, low-fat diet, calcium/vitamin D) plus an observational study; 2002 hormone results reshaped menopause care.
Women's history
Women's history is the scholarly field documenting women's past experiences, emerging in the late 1960s and 1970s from second-wave feminism, later broadening into gender history through Joan Scott's concept of gender and intersectional analysis.
Women's History Month
Women's History Month is the annual U.S. March observance honoring women's contributions, begun as Women's History Week under President Carter in 1980, expanded by Congress in 1987, and proclaimed annually since 1995.
Women's Land Army
The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organization, formed 1917 and revived 1939, recruiting women as "land girls" for wartime farm work; parallel bodies existed in the US (WLAA farmerettes) and Australia (AWLA).
Women's liberation movement
The women's liberation movement was the radical grassroots wing of second-wave feminism from the late 1960s, known for consciousness-raising groups, the 1968 Miss America protest, the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality, and Black, lesbian, and socialist feminist currents.
Women's Love and Life
Women's Love and Life (German: Frauenliebe und -leben) is a song cycle for voice and piano that Robert Schumann composed in 1840 on poems by Adelbert von Chamisso.
Women's major continental European leagues
Women's major continental European leagues: England's WSL, Spain's Liga F, Germany's Frauen-Bundesliga, France's Première Ligue, and Italy's Serie A, the top professional women's football divisions feeding the UEFA Women's Champions League.
Women's major golf championships
Women's major golf championships: the five LPGA-recognized majors, the U.S. Women's Open, KPMG Women's PGA, Chevron, AIG Women's Open, and Evian, their history since 1930, and the career Grand Slam.
Women's March (South Africa)
The Women's March of 9 August 1956 brought over 20,000 South African women of all races to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest the extension of apartheid pass laws to African women.
Women's March on Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the October Days, was a 1789 uprising in which Parisian women demanding bread forced King Louis XVI to Paris.
Women's movement literature
Women's movement literature (Frauenliteratur, Emanzipationsliteratur) is the body of texts produced by and for the second-wave women's movement in German-speaking Europe from the late 1960s through the 1980s.
Women's National Anti-Suffrage League
The Women's National Anti-Suffrage League (WNASL), founded July 1908 and led by Mrs Humphry Ward, was a British women's organization opposing female suffrage; it published the Anti-Suffrage Review and merged in 1910 into the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage.
Women's National Basketball Association
Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), professional women's basketball league founded April 24, 1996, first season 1997; oldest women's pro sports league in North America, 15 teams in 2026, expanding to 18, with a $2.2 billion media deal and a 2026 CBA raising the salary cap to $7 million.
Women's National Cricket League
Women's National Cricket League (WNCL), Australia's women's domestic 50-over cricket competition since 1996-97; seven state and ACT teams play 43 matches for the Ruth Preddey Cup, with New South Wales holding 21 of 30 titles and Queensland the reigning champion.
Women's National Football Conference
Women's National Football Conference (WNFC), US professional women's tackle football league founded 2018 by Odessa Jenkins; 16 teams, IX Cup final on ESPN2, games on Victory+, no player salaries, rivals the WFA.
Women's One-Day Cup
Women's One-Day Cup (Metro Bank One Day Cup women's competition): English and Welsh List A 50-over women's county cricket tournament, launched 2025, replacing the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy; nine Tier 1 teams; champions The Blaze (2026), Lancashire (2025).
Women's pentathlon
Women's pentathlon (athletics): a five-event combined competition. Indoor format: 60m hurdles, high jump, shot put, long jump, 800m in one day; outdoor Olympic pentathlon ran 1964-1980 before the heptathlon replaced it.
Women's Premier League (cricket)
Women's Premier League (WPL), or TATA WPL, the BCCI's women's franchise Twenty20 cricket league since 2023 with five teams; Mumbai Indians won 2023, Royal Challengers Bengaluru a second title in 2026.