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.

: Women have been found to find altruistic men to be attractive partners.

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.

Movies have even achieved cult status by successfully imitating the awfulnesses of so-bad-it's-good movies ( The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and Amazon Women on the Moon being just two examples ).

The controversial book " The Education of Christian Women " by Juan Luis Vives, which claimed women have the right to an education, was dedicated to and commissioned by her.

The Sabine Women Enforcing Peace by Running between the Combatants, also called The Intervention of the Sabine Women is said to have been painted to honor his wife, with the theme being love prevailing over conflict.

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

Women have fled the army because the army bars them from getting pregnant, denying them the opportunity to start a family if they remained in the Eritrean military.

Both institutions have since been handsomely and suitably housed and equipped, the New hospital for Women ( in the Euston Road ) for many years being worked entirely by medical women, and the schools ( in Hunter Street, WC1 ) having over 200 students, most of them preparing for the medical degree of London University ( the present-day University College London ), which was opened to women in 1877.

He seems not to have used it in his early plays at all, The Trojan Women being the earliest appearance of it in an extant play-it's symptomatic of a curious archaizing tendency evident in his later works.

Women have been playing association football since the first recorded women's game in 1895 in North London.

" Women ’ s testimony is in general light and subject to variation ; this is why it is taken more seriously than that of men " as opposed to men, upon whom " Nature seems to have conferred … the right to govern.

Women writers have played key roles in science fiction and fantasy literature, often addressing themes of gender.

Women with FGM typically report sexual dysfunction and dyspareunia ( painful sexual intercourse ), but several researchers have written that FGM does not necessarily destroy sexual desire in women.

In early times, horror films such as My Bloody Valentine ( 1981 ), Halloween ( 1978 ), and Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) pertained mostly to a male audience in order to " feed the fantasies of young men ".< ref name = Nowell > Their main focus was to express the fear of women and show them as monsters ; however, this ideal is no longer prevalent in horror films .< ref name = Williams > Women have become not only the main audience and fans of horror films but also the main protagonists of contemporary horror films.

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 )).

Her essays and articles have been published in Women's Studies Quarterly, Signs, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Science Fiction Studies, and College English.

Women in the Middle East have been historically segregated from men.

Women, however, may have intimate relations with other women as long as their wifely duties are met, their private matters are kept quiet, and the woman with whom they are involved is somehow related by family or logical interest to her lover.

James Madison University ( also known as JMU, Madison, or James Madison ) is a public coeducational research university located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, U. S. Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the university has undergone four name changes before settling with James Madison University.

Women who have undergone previous surgically induced abortions have been shown to have a higher risk of preterm birth ( less than 37 weeks ), as well as extreme preterm birth ( less than 28 weeks ).

The Austin Hospital site has recently undergone extensive renovations, and now also contains the Mercy Hospital for Women.

In the study Long-term Health Status of Danish Women with Silicone Breast Implants ( 2004 ), the national healthcare system of Denmark reported that women with implants did not risk a greater incidence and diagnosis of autoimmune disease, when compared to same-age women in the general population ; that the incidence of musculoskeletal disease was lower among women with breast implants than among women who had undergone other cosmetic surgery ; and that they had a lower incidence rate than like women in the general population.