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Woman Is the Future of Man (여자는 남자의 미래다)
Woman Is the Future of Man (여자는 남자의 미래다) is Hong Sang-soo's 2004 South Korean drama, his fifth feature, in competition at Cannes 2004; two men revisit a former lover, Seon-hwa, in Bucheon after seven years.
Woman Is the Nigger of the World
"Woman Is the Nigger of the World" is a 1972 John Lennon and Yoko Ono protest song from Some Time in New York City, built on Ono's 1969 Nova magazine phrase, released 24 April 1972, peaking at number 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 amid radio refusal over its title slur.
Woman of the Ashes
Woman of the Ashes (Mulheres de cinza) is a 2015 historical novel by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto, set in southern Mozambique in 1894 during the war against Ngungunyane.
Woman of the Hour
Woman of the Hour is a 2024 Netflix crime thriller and Anna Kendrick's directorial debut, based on serial killer Rodney Alcala's real 1978 Dating Game appearance alongside Cheryl Bradshaw, whom Kendrick plays; Daniel Zovatto co-stars.
Woman of the Year
Woman of the Year (1942) is an MGM romantic comedy directed by George Stevens, the first of nine Spencer Tracy–Katharine Hepburn films, written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin, Oscar-winning screenplay, based loosely on columnist Dorothy Thompson.
Woman of Tokyo (東京の女)
Woman of Tokyo (東京の女, Tokyo no Onna) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1933 silent Shochiku melodrama in which typist Chikako secretly works as a dance-hall hostess to pay her brother Ryoichi's tuition, with tragic results.
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 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.
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.
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 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 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 in Beijing (北京女子图鉴)
Women in Beijing (北京女子图鉴) is a 2018 Youku web drama, an authorized adaptation of Tokyo Women's Journal, starring Qi Wei as Chen Ke, a Sichuan woman building a career in Beijing over 2008-2018; 20 episodes, screenwriter Zhang Jia, Douban 6.2, distinct from Wang Xin's same-title novel and its four seasonal web films.
Women in Blue (TV series)
Women in Blue (Las Azules) is a Mexican Spanish-language Apple TV+ crime drama created by Fernando Rovzar and Pablo Aramendi, premiering July 31, 2024, about four women in Mexico's first female police force hunting a serial killer; season 2 premiered August 12, 2026.
Women in costume design
Women in costume design covers the history, recognition, and pay of women designing costumes for film, television, and stage, a majority-female craft that won pay equity in 2024.
Women in Love
Women in Love is D. H. Lawrence's 1920 novel, a sequel to The Rainbow following Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen and their relationships with Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich, first published privately in New York.
Women in Love (film)
Women in Love (1969) is Ken Russell's British film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's 1920 novel, written and produced by Larry Kramer, starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Jennie Linden, and Oscar-winning Glenda Jackson, famous for its nude wrestling scene.
Women in music
Women in music: women's participation as composers, performers, songwriters, producers, and executives from antiquity to the present, the classical canon's exclusion of women composers, and measured modern representation gaps, such as 13.9% of Hot 100 songwriting credits and 4.4% of producer credits held by women.
Women in Music Pt. III
Women in Music Pt. III is Haim's third studio album, released June 26, 2020 on Columbia, produced with Rostam Batmanglij and Ariel Rechtshaid; Metascore 89, UK number one, and 2021 Grammy Album of the Year nominee.
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 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 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 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.