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.

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 are also more likely to engage in local politics and social movement activities than in traditional forums focused on national politics.

Women with vaginismus may be able to engage in a variety of other sexual activities, as long as penetration is avoided.

Women may engage in ministry, but leadership and ordination is restricted to men.

Women ’ s studies curricula often encourage students to engage in hands-on activities, including discussion and reflection upon course materials.

" It is important to note, however, that many Women ’ s Studies curricula engage with a variety of different epistemological and methodological practices.

Women traditionally engage in fortune telling and hand crafts.

In ensuing months, " Men ( and Women ) of Moe " would engage in " slapping missions " where simply-printed stickers with the words " Moe Loogham is Coming!

Women had the right to own property, to engage in business, and to obtain a divorce, but their legal rights varied over time.

Women participate in economic and political activity, engage in social interaction, and generally do not wear veils.

Women, when not " dolls ", " Judies ", " pancakes ", " tomatoes ", " broads " or what have you, may be " characters of a female nature ", for example.

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 may not lead prayers other than if it is an all female group ( among native Muslims in China ( Hui ), women have traditionally been trained as, and practice, the role of imam among female-only congregations ; these are often the wives of imams ( see Nusi )).

* 1948 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force ( WAF ).

Arthur Schopenhauer has been accused of misogyny for his essay " On Women " ( Über die Weiber ), in which he expressed his opposition to what he called " Teutonico-Christian stupidity " on female affairs.

In August 2007, while teaching a four-hour film course during the 9th Cinemanila International Film Festival in Manila, Tarantino cited Filipino directors Cirio Santiago, Eddie Romero, and Gerardo de León as personal icons from the 1970s, citing De Leon's " soul-shattering, life-extinguishing " movies on vampires and female bondage, particularly Women in Cages.

On the other hand, Carla Hesse, in The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern ( 2001 ), argues that " female participation in the public cultural life of the Old Regime was ... relatively marginal ".

Additionally, the Society of Women Engineers awards the Lillian Moller Gilbreth Memorial Scholarship to deserving female engineering undergraduates.

Women generally had very secondary roles at this time, though various series with Wendy Craig in the leading role and those developed by scriptwriter Carla Lane, the first successful female writer in the form, were challenges to this situation.

Indigo: Women of Song, a tribute album covering songs by female artists such as Joan Baez, the Carpenters, Doris Day, Nina Simone, Minnie Riperton and others, was released in 2004.

The Manish Jha film, Matrubhoomi-A Nation Without Women ( 2003 ), depicts a future dystopia in a village in India, populated exclusively by males due to female infanticide, and which is reduced to barbarianism.

As Natya Shastra states the qualities required of a female dancer narthaki, " Women who have beautiful limbs, are conversant with the sixty-four arts and crafts ( kala ), are clever, courteous in behaviour, free from female diseases, always bold, free from indolence, inured to hard work, capable of practising various arts and crafts, skilled in dancing and songs, who excel by their beauty, youthfulness, brilliance and other qualities all other women standing by, are known as female dancers

Astor later proposed creating a " Women ’ s Party ", but the female Labour MPs thought it was a ridiculous idea because at that time their party had power and promised them positions.

This is especially true during adolescence .” Little Women became “ the paradigmatic text for young women of the era and one in which family literary culture is prominently featured .” Adult elements of women ’ s fiction were in Little Women, such as “ a change of heart necessary ” for the female protagonist to evolve in the story.

Little Women also repeatedly reinforced the importance of “ individuality ” and “ female vocation .” “ Little Women had “ continued relevance of its subject ” and “ its longevity points as well to surprising continuities in gender norms from the 1860s at least through the 1960s .” Those interested in domestic reform could look to the pages of Little Women to see how a “ democratic household ” would operate.

The Women ( 1939 ) followed, with an entirely female cast of more than 130 speaking roles.

Women began to enter U. S. major commercial aviation in the 1970s and 1980s, with 1973 seeing the first female pilot at a major U. S. airline, American Airlines, and 1986, seeing the first female captain at a major U. S. airline.