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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 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 who have sex with women
Women who have sex with women (WSW, or WSWM when also with men) is a behavioral sexual-health category, not an identity. Key facts: low presumed risk is unwarranted, female-to-female HIV transmission is rare, BV and trichomonas are common, and cervical screening is routine.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
Wonhwa
Wonhwa (원화) was a mid-6th-century Silla youth-training institution, created in 576, in which selected young women led bands of youths and preceded the male Hwarang.
Wonsan General Strike
The Wonsan General Strike was a 1929 labor strike by about 2,200 members of the Wonsan Labor Federation in Wonsan, Japanese-occupied Korea, and the largest strike of the colonial period.
Wop
Wop is an offensive English ethnic slur for Italians or people of Italian descent, first recorded in American slang around 1910–15, derived from Neapolitan guappo, not the folk acronym "without papers."
Word association test
The word association test is a psychometric task in which a participant answers a stimulus word with the first word that comes to mind, used to map semantic memory.
Word recognition task
A word recognition task is an experimental psychology paradigm measuring lexical access, dominated by naming, reading a word aloud, and lexical decision, judging whether a letter string is a word.
Word stem completion task
The word stem completion task is a memory paradigm in which participants study words and later complete three-letter stems, measuring implicit priming that persists in amnesia.
Work spouse
Work spouse (work wife, work husband): a close, platonic, emotionally intimate bond with a coworker resembling marriage without romance; studied academically since McBride and Bergen's 2015 survey of 269 participants, with about a third of U.S. workers reporting one.
Workforce Diversity
Workforce diversity, also called workplace or diverse workforce diversity, is the range of human differences employees bring to work, including race, gender, age, disability, and religion; studied through inclusion measures, DEI interventions, and EEO-1 demographic reporting.
Working memory training
Working memory training is a cognitive intervention using repeated, adaptive memory tasks, originally developed for children with ADHD, that improves trained tasks but shows contested far transfer.
Working poor
Working poor: people employed for substantial periods yet below a poverty line. Also called in-work poverty. US BLS counts 6.1 million (3.8% of long-term labor force, 2023); EU in-work at-risk-of-poverty rate is 8.2%.
World Environment Day
World Environment Day: annual UN environmental day on 5 June since 1973, led by UNEP under resolution A/RES/2994 (XXVII) commemorating the 1972 Stockholm Conference, with annual themes, rotating host countries, and over 150 participating nations.
World Food Programme
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations' food-assistance organization, established in 1961, working in over 120 countries and awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.
World Happiness Report
Annual UN-affiliated report ranking countries by self-reported life evaluation on the Cantril Ladder (0-10), using Gallup World Poll data from 140+ countries since 2005; published by Oxford's Wellbeing Research Centre; Finland has ranked first since 2017.
World Naked Gardening Day
World Naked Gardening Day (WNGD), founded 2005 by Mark Storey and Jacob Gabriel via Seattle's Body Freedom Collaborative, is an annual first-Saturday-of-May event encouraging clothes-free gardening; first held September 10, 2005, unowned, naturist-endorsed.
World population
World population: total number of living humans, 8.2 billion in 2024 (UN WPP 2024; Census Bureau 8.09 billion in 2025). Growth peaked at 2.3% in 1963; UN projects a mid-2080s peak near 10.3 billion, Census Bureau 10.6 billion in 2093.
World Population Prospects
World Population Prospects (WPP) is the UN Population Division's official population estimates and projections series, 28 editions since 1951, covering 237 countries, 1950-2100; the 2024 revision projects a mid-2080s peak at 10.3 billion.
World Social Forum
World Social Forum (Fórum Social Mundial), anti-neoliberal globalization gathering founded January 2001 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, opposite the Davos World Economic Forum; slogan "Another World is Possible"; first edition drew 20,000 people from 117 countries.
World Youth Day 2027
World Youth Day 2027 (WYD Seoul 2027), the 41st World Youth Day, is a Catholic youth gathering in Seoul, South Korea, August 3–8, 2027, themed on John 16:33, preceded by Days in the Dioceses and the second WYD in Asia after Manila 1995.