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Women's Premier Soccer League
Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL), US amateur women's soccer league founded 1998 by Jerry Zanelli; largest women's soccer league in the world, 144 teams in 2026, USASA Tier 1 sanctioned, with WPSL Pro planned.
Women's Prize for Fiction
The Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize, then Baileys Prize) is a British annual award for the best full-length English-language novel by a woman, published in the UK, worth £30,000 and the Bessie statuette; 2026 winner: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans.
Women's Pro Baseball League
Women's Pro Baseball League (WPBL), also Women's Professional Baseball League: US women's pro hardball league co-founded by Justine Siegal and Keith Stein, launching August 1, 2026 with four teams, the first since the AAGPBL folded in 1954.
Women's Professional Soccer
Women's Professional Soccer (WPS), the second US women's pro soccer league, played 2009-2012 with seven founding teams, $32,000 average salaries, and 4,493 average 2009 attendance before folding; the NWSL replaced it in 2013.
Women's prose
Women's prose is prose writing, chiefly fiction and essays, produced by women and studied as a distinct category tied to feminist criticism and the recovery of overlooked writers.
Women's Protection Units
Women's Protection Units (YPJ, Yekîneyên Parastina Jin), all-female Kurdish militia founded 2012/2013 in Rojava, Syria; fought ISIS with the SDF, notably at Kobani; ideology from Öcalan's jineology; now negotiating integration into Syria's new state.
Women's rights
Women's rights: human rights and legal entitlements of women and girls, grounded in the 1948 UDHR and CEDAW (1979, 189 states parties), plus regional instruments, tracked by indices such as the Global Gender Gap Index.
Women's rights by country
Women's rights by country: comparative legal status of women across nations, measured by World Bank WBL (190 economies, 10 topics), UNDP GII, OECD SIGI, and SDG 5.1.1; no country has full legal equality, women hold 64% of men's legal rights.
Women's rights in Iran
Women's rights in Iran cover the legal status of Iranian women, whose advocacy spans the Pahlavi era and Islamic Republic, including the 2022 "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests.
Women's Rights Pioneers Monument
The Women's Rights Pioneers Monument is a bronze sculpture in Central Park, New York City, unveiled in 2020 and the first there to depict real women.
Women's soccer in the United States
Women's soccer in the United States grew rapidly after Title IX of 1972, with the national team winning the 1991 World Cup and the NWSL leading professional play.
Women's Social and Political Union
The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in Manchester in 1903, was the militant British women's suffrage organisation whose "Deeds not words" tactics made its members the suffragettes, until it disbanded into the Women's Party in 1917.
Women's sports
Women's sports: female athletic competition from Olympic exclusion in 1896 to 2024 Paris parity, Title IX growth, a 20-40% female research gap, and a $3 billion elite market.
Women's studies
Women's studies is an interdisciplinary academic field, originating in US universities in the late 1960s from second-wave feminism, studying women, gender, and power; also known as gender studies after 1990s renamings.
Women's suffrage
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in politics. New Zealand granted it in 1893, followed by Finland in 1906, and the United States via the 19th Amendment in 1920.
Women's suffrage by country
Women's suffrage by country: dates women gained national voting rights, from New Zealand 1893 and Finland 1906 through postwar and decolonization waves to Kuwait 2005, including staged and racially restricted grants.
Women's suffrage in Asia
Women's suffrage in Asia is the history of when women in Asian countries gained equal voting rights, from Mongolia in 1924 through India's universal franchise in 1950.
Women's suffrage in Australia
Women's suffrage in Australia was achieved between 1894 and 1908, with the 1902 Commonwealth Franchise Act making Australia the first country to give most women both the vote and the right to stand for parliament.
Women's suffrage in Canada
Women's suffrage in Canada: how women won the vote, from pre-1867 exclusions through Manitoba's 1916 first, the 1918 federal franchise, Quebec in 1940, and full access in 1960.
Women's suffrage in New Zealand
Women's suffrage in New Zealand culminated in the Electoral Act, signed on 19 September 1893, making it the first self-governing country to grant women the vote.
Women's suffrage in Switzerland
Women's suffrage in Switzerland: federal voting rights for women, approved by the all-male electorate 7 February 1971 with 65.7% yes after a 1959 rejection; last canton, Appenzell Innerrhoden, enfranchised only in 1990 by Federal Supreme Court ruling.
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom: the 1866-1928 campaign for women's voting rights, led by the NUWSS under Millicent Fawcett and the militant WSPU under Emmeline Pankhurst, won partial enfranchisement of women over 30 in 1918 and equal franchise in 1928.
Women's suffrage in the United States
Women's suffrage in the United States was the 19th- and early-20th-century campaign for women's right to vote, won state by state (Wyoming, 1869) and nationally through the 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920 after 41 years in Congress; full voting access for women of color came only later.
Women's Super League
Women's Super League (WSL, Barclays Women's Super League): top division of women's football in England, launched 2011, fully professional since 2018, 14 teams from 2026/27. Chelsea hold a record eight titles; club revenues reached £65m in 2023/24.
Women's Super League 2
Women's Super League 2 (WSL2, formerly FA Women's Championship) is England's second-tier professional women's football league, founded 2014 as WSL 2, renamed WSL2 from 2025/26 under WSL Football, a 12-team division with promotion to the WSL.
Women's team pursuit at the Winter Olympics
Women's team pursuit, Winter Olympics long-track speed skating: three-skater teams race six laps (2,400 m). Debut Torino 2006 (Germany won); champions include Netherlands 2014, Japan 2018, Canada 2022; Olympic record 2:53.44.
Women's Tennis Association
Women's Tennis Association (WTA), governing body of women's professional tennis, founded by Billie Jean King June 21, 1973 at London's Gloucester Hotel; runs WTA Tour, PIF WTA Rankings, WTA Finals; HQ St. Petersburg, Florida, moving to Charlotte.
Women's Trade Union League
The Women's Trade Union League (NWTUL, 1903-1950), founded in Boston at the AFL convention, organized women wage workers, supported garment strikes, ran a leadership training school, published Life and Labor, and lobbied protective labor legislation.
Women's Twenty20 International cricketer lists by country
Lists of every woman who has played a Twenty20 International for her country, organized by national team and expanded when the ICC granted all members T20I status in 2018.
Women's World Championship (WWE)
Women's World Championship (WWE), formerly SmackDown Women's Championship, a women's world wrestling title established August 23, 2016, renamed June 12, 2023, defended on Raw; current champion Liv Morgan, fourth reign, won October 10, 2026.