The Woman in Me won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album as well as the Academy of Country Music award for Album of the Year ; the latter group also awarded Twain as Best New Female Vocalist.

She was voted Best British Female Vocalist two years in a row by the magazine Record Mirror.

The song reached the American Top 10 on the Pop ( No. 6 ), Country ( No. 7 ), and AC ( No. 3 ) charts and earned her a Grammy for Best Country Female and an Academy of Country Music award for Most Promising Female Vocalist.

In addition to her Grammy for " Let Me Be There ", Newton-John was also named the Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year in 1974, defeating more established nominees Loretta Lynn, Canadian Anne Murray, Dolly Parton and Tanya Tucker.

Haza was voted " Female Vocalist Of The Year " four years in a row, from 1980 through 1983.

She won Female Vocalist of the Year at the 1987 Tejano Music Awards and landed a recording contract with EMI a few years later.

At the 1987 Tejano Music Awards, Selena won Best Female Vocalist, an award she would dominate for the rest of her life.

In 1998, she won Female Vocalist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year ( along with Pierre Marchand ), Single of the Year for " Building a Mystery ", and Album of the Year for Surfacing.

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For the next four years, Francis was voted the " Best Female Vocalist " by American Bandstand viewers.

Warwick was named the Bestselling Female Vocalist in the Cash Box Magazine Poll in 1964, with six chart hits in that year.

Cash Box also named her the Top Female Vocalist in 1969, 1970 and 1971.

Playboy's influential Music Poll of 1970 named her the Top Female Vocalist.

Her video for Tracy Chapman ’ s “ Give Me One Reason ” was nominated for MTV ’ s Best Female Vocalist, 1996.

Dana also performed extensively in cabaret venues and was voted Top Female Vocalist at the National Club Acts Awards in 1979.

She was also named the Academy of Country Music's Best New Female Vocalist.

However, it brought Gentry an Academy of Country Music Award and a Grammy nomination, both in the category of Best Female Vocalist.

In 1968, Wynette became the second female vocalist to win the Country Music Association Awards ' " Female Vocalist of the Year " award, later winning an additional two other times ( 1969, 1970 ).

McEntire holds the record for the most Academy of Country Music Top Female Vocalist Awards ( seven ), and American Music Awards for Favorite Country Female Artist ( twelve ), and ties with Martina McBride for most Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year Awards ( four ), though McEntire does have the distinction of winning the award 4 times consecutively.

" Baby Baby " received Grammy nominations for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and Record and Song of the Year ( although it failed to win in any of those categories ).

The album also won Crow three Grammy Awards, in 1995: Record of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Female Vocal Performance.

" I'm Like A Bird " won a 2001 Juno Award for Single of the Year and a 2002 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

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The novel won the 1998 British Book of the Year, and Tracie Bennett won the 2000 Audie Award for " Solo Female Narration " for her audio book narration.

She's So Unusual led Lauper to win an award at the 1985 Grammy Awards: Best New Artist, the album also won the Grammy for Best Album Package, this award went to the art director, Janet Perr ; Additionally, it received four nominations ; Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for " Girls Just Want To Have Fun ", and Song of the Year for " Time After Time ".

True Colors led Lauper to win two awards at the 1985 Grammy Awards: Best New Artist and Best Album Package for She's So Unusual ; Additionally, it received four nominations ; Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for " Girls Just Want To Have Fun ", and Song of the Year for " Time After Time ".

The next awards ceremony, Lauper to win four awards at the 1985 Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and Best Music Video, Short Form for collaboration We Are the World ; Additionally, it received one nomination ; Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for " What A Thrill ".

Fun, Fearless Male and Female of the Year:

Mila Kunis received the 2011 Fun, Fearless Female of the Year honor, a title that had been previously awarded to Anna Faris ( 2010 ), Ali Larter ( 2009 ), Katherine Heigl ( 2008 ), Eva Mendes ( 2007 ), Beyoncé ( 2006 ), Ashlee Simpson ( 2005 ), Alicia Silverstone ( 2004 ), Sandra Bullock ( 2003 ), Britney Spears ( 2002 ), Debra Messing ( 2001 ), Jennifer Love Hewitt ( 2000 ), Shania Twain ( 1999 ) and Ashley Judd ( 1998 )

She also received Grammy nominations including Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

The album earned her two Grammy Awards for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ( for " Building a Mystery " in 1998 and " I Will Remember You " in 2000 ) and four Juno Awards, including Album of the Year for Surfacing and Song of the Year and Songwriter of the Year for " Building a Mystery ".

* 1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.

Female placental mammals have completely separate orifices for defecation, urination, and reproduction ; males have one opening for defecation and another for both urination and reproduction, although the channels flowing to that orifice are almost completely separate.

Category: Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead winners

Female coyotes are monoestrous, and remain in estrus for two to five days between late January and late March, during which mating occurs.

In 1978, Parton won a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her Here You Come Again album.

She recorded a series of bluegrass-inspired albums, beginning with The Grass Is Blue ( 1999 ), winning a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, and Little Sparrow ( 2001 ), with its cover of Collective Soul's " Shine " winning a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

Female houses differed from male Dominican houses in a lack of apostolic work for the women.

Female genital mutilation ( FGM ), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is defined by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) as " all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.

In the UK, the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 outlawed the procedure in Britain itself, and the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 and Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation ( Scotland ) Act 2005 made it an offence for FGM to be performed anywhere in the world on British citizens or permanent residents.

Evaluation of Senegal's " National Action Plan for the Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation ".

Transmuting the Gothic novel into a comprehendible tale for the imaginative eighteenth-century woman was useful for the Female Gothic writers of the time.

Female Chinese and Syrian hamsters are known for being aggressive toward the male if kept together for too long after mating.

She is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire.

Both fiction and nonfiction, for Russ, were modes of engaging theory with the real world ; in particular, The Female Man can be read as a theoretical or narrative text.

Female homoeroticism, however, was so common in English literature and theater that historians suggest it was fashionable for a period during the Renaissance.

More than 8, 000 women were interviewed by Alfred Kinsey and the staff of the Institute for Sex Research in a book titled Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, popularly known as part of the Kinsey Report.