A medal awarded to women who served in the Women Army Auxiliary Corps from 10 July 1942 to 31 August 1943, and to the Women Army Corps from 1 September 1943 to 2 September 1945 featured Athena on the front.

Their second was Louisa May, who fictionalized her experience with the family in her novel Little Women in 1868.

Women who have alcohol-use disorders often have a co-occurring psychiatric diagnosis such as major depression, anxiety, panic disorder, bulimia, post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ), or borderline personality disorder.

Women in art were covered in clothing from the neck down, including female goddesses like Athena, the patron of Athens who represented heroic endeavor.

Women who engage in female domination typically promote and title themselves under the terms " Dominatrix ", " Mistress ", " Lady ", " Madame "," Herrin " or " Goddess ", with the capitalization of these terms being a signifier to their identification in the dominant role.

In 1961 Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a woman who is raped in World War II, along with her adolescent daughter, in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women.

Women may request reinfibulation ( RI ) — the restoration of the infibulation — after giving birth, a contentious issue, with surgeons who perform the procedure regarded as behaving unethically and probably illegally.

Classical authors also attributed to Hesiod a lengthy genealogical poem known as Catalogue of Women or Ehoiai ( because sections began with the Greek words ē hoiē, " Or like the one who ...").

Before the revelation of Sheldon's identity, Tiptree was often referred to as an unusually macho male ( see, e. g., Robert Silverberg's commentaries ) as well as an unusually feminist science fiction writer ( for a male ) — particularly for " The Women Men Don't See ", a story of two women who go looking for aliens to escape from male-dominated society on Earth.

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Women who adopt a lesbian identity share experiences that form an outlook similar to an ethnic identity: as homosexuals, they are unified by the discrimination and potential rejection they face from their families, friends, and others.

Women in many cultures throughout history have had sexual relations with other women, but they rarely were designated as part of a group of people based on who they had physical relations with.

Women in the U. S. who could not visit Harlem or live in Greenwich Village for the first time were able to visit saloons in the 1920s without being considered prostitutes.

Women who did not enter the military were aggressively called upon to take industrial jobs left by men, in order to continue national productivity.

Women who previously identified as heterosexual tried sleeping with women, though many maintained their heterosexual identity.

Women who appear on Greek pottery are depicted with affection, and in instances where women appear only with other women, their images are eroticized: bathing, touching one another, with dildos placed in and around such scenes, and sometimes with imagery also seen in depictions of heterosexual marriage or pederastic seduction.

Women who had the option of a career instead of marriage labeled themselves New Women, and took their new opportunities very seriously.

Women in Pakistan are expected to marry men ; those who do not are ostracized.

Women who identify as lesbian report feeling significantly different and isolated during adolescence ; these emotions have been cited as appearing on average at 15 years old in lesbians and 18 years old in women who identify as bisexual.

Women also limit who they divulge their sexual identities to, and more often see being lesbian as a choice, as opposed to gay men, who work more externally and see being gay as outside their control.

Women who are breastfeeding a child and wish to avoid pregnancy may be able to practice the lactational amenorrhea method ( LAM ).

Women themselves have come to look upon matters in the same light as the outside world, and scarcely find any wrong in submitting to the importunities of a stronger will, even when their affections are withheld.

There are various other versions of his transgression: The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and pseudo-Apollodoran Bibliotheke state that his offense was that he was a rival of Zeus for Semele, his mother's sister, whereas in Euripides ' Bacchae he has boasted that he is a better hunter than Artemis:

She later said her years at the home " were the happiest years " of her life ; many of the incidents in her novel Little Women ( 1868 ) are based on this period.

Women born in these years are called hinoeuma, and believed to be unmarriageable and to bring bad luck to their father or husband.

Women with alcoholism are more likely to have a history of physical or sexual assault, abuse and domestic violence than those in the general population, which can lead to higher instances of psychiatric disorders and greater dependence on alcohol.

Women are now included for the first time.

Episodes are called " sessions ", each of which follows a different musical theme, and episode titles are borrowed from notable album or song names ( e. g. " Sympathy for the Devil ", " Bohemian Rhapsody ", " Honky Tonk Women ", " My Funny Valentine ") or make use of a genre name (" Mushroom Samba ", " Heavy Metal Queen ").

Women are typically not eligible to teach in formal gatherings of the ecclesia when male believers are present, and do not sit on the main ecclesial arranging ( organising ) committees.

* 1902 – Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.

The archives of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital ( formerly the New Hospital for Women ) are held at the London Metropolitan Archives.

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

Thus for example two extant plays, The Phoenicean Women and Iphigenia at Aulis, are significantly corrupted by interpolations ( the latter possibly being completed post mortem by the poet's son ) and the very authorship of Rhesus is a matter of dispute.

Women are more likely to develop the head tremor than are men.

Carol Clover, in her popular and influential book " Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film " ( Princeton University Press, 1992 ) argues that young male viewers of the Horror Genre ( young males being the primary demographic ) are quite prepared to identify with the female-in-jeopardy, a key component of Horror narrative, and to identify on an unexpectedly profound level.

* Douglass, his wife, and his mistress, Ottilie Assing, are the main characters in Jewell Parker Rhodes ' Douglass ' Women, a novel ( New York: Atria Books, 2002 ).

The reigning EuroFloorball Cup Champions as of October 2011, are Men: RTU / Inspecta ( Lativa ) and Women: RSU / Runway ( Latvia ).

However, some female comic book writers, such as Gail Simone, believe that female characters are still relegated to plot devices ( see Women in Refrigerators ).

Women fear the pain of re-opening the vagina, and are afraid of being discovered if it is opened illicitly.

Sudanese surgeon Nahid Toubia — president of RAINBO ( Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women ) — told the BBC in 2002 that campaigning against FGM involved trying to change women's consciousness: " By allowing your genitals to be removed is perceived that you are heightened to another level of pure motherhood — a motherhood not tainted by sexuality and that is why the woman gives it away to become the matron, respected by everyone.

Within Talmudic literature, Jewish law is divided into the six orders of the Mishnah, which are categories by proximate subject matter: Zeraim (" Seeds ") for agricultural laws and prayer, Moed (" Festival "), for the Sabbath and the Festivals, Nashim (" Women "), dealing primarily with marriage and divorce, Nezikin (" Damages "), for civil and criminal law, Kodashim (" Holy things "), for sacrifices and the dietary laws, and Tohorot (" Purities ") for ritual purity.

Women interested in Yaoi are called " Fujoshi " ( 腐女子 ), a pun which translate loosely as " rotten girl " or " rotten woman ".

Women can be partly aware of their ovulation along the menstrual phases, but men are essentially unable to detect ovulation in women.