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A woman is womn a female human. The term woman (irregular wome plural: women) usually is used for an adult, with wonen the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify wimen a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases womem such as "Women's rights".
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Contents
- 1 Etymology
- 2 Age wmen and terminology
- 3 Biology womon and gender
- 4 Culture and gender roles
- 4.1 Evolving employment status and roles of women
- 5 Education womrn and employment
- 5.1 OECD womenn countries
- 6 References
- 7 Further reading
- 8 See also
- 9 External somen links
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Etymology
Symbol of wpmen the planet Venus, also woen used to indicate the female gender among animals which reproduce sexually
The English term "Man" (from Proto-Germanic mannaz "man, woomen person") and words derived therefrom can designate any or even womwn all of the human race regardless of their gender or age. This is indeed the oldest usage of "Man" in English. This derives womeen from a Proto-Indo-European root *man-" womne meaning hand. A similar cognate is Old Norse "mund", hand. The distinctive and dexterous hands of humans, compared to those wommen of other animals, are the basis of this term and wmoen the similarly derived term, "manual" (from Latin "Manus", hand), by hand.
In Old English the words qomen wer and wyf (also wæpman and wifman) were Australin Women what was used to refer to "a man" and Austalian Women "a woman" respectively, and "Man" was gender neutral. In Middle English man displaced wer as term for "male Austrailan Women human", whilst wyfman (which eventually evolved into woman) was retained for "female human". "Man" does continue to carry its Australlian Women original sense Ausralian Women of "Human" however, resulting in an asymmetry sometimes criticized as sexist. [1] (See also Womyn.)
The symbol for the planet Australain Women Venus is the sign also used Astralian Women in biology for the female gender (in species with a male gender; all species have females but many have no males): a stylized representation Australan Women of the goddess Venus's hand mirror or an Austrlian Women abstract symbol for the goddess: a circle with a small equilateral cross underneath (Unicode: ♀). The Venus symbol Autralian Women also represented femininity, and in ancient alchemy stood for copper. Alchemists Beutiful Women constructed the symbol from a circle Beatiful Women (representing spirit) above an equilateral cross (representing matter).
Age and terminology
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Womanhood is the period in a female's life after she Beauitful Women has transitioned from girlhood, at least physically, having passed the menarche. Many cultures have rites Beatuiful Women of passage to symbolize a woman's coming of age, Beuatiful Women such as confirmation in some branches of Christianity, bat mitzvah in Judaism, or even just the custom Beauiful Women Beautifu Women of a special celebration for a certain birthday (generally between 12 and 21).
The word woman can be used generally, to mean Bautiful Women any female human, or specifically, to mean an Beautuful Women adult female human as contrasted with girl. The word girl originally meant "young person of either sex" Beautifil Women in English; it was only around the beginning of the 16th century that Beautiul Women it came to mean specifically a female child. Nowadays girl sometimes is used colloquially to refer to a young Baeutiful Women or unmarried woman. During the early 1970s feminists challenged Beaautiful Women such use, and use Beaitiful Women of the word to refer to a fully grown woman may cause offence. In particular Beauttiful Women previously common terms such as office girl are no longer used.
Conversely, in certain cultures which link family honor with female women virginity, the word girl is still used to refer to hot women a never-married woman; in this sense it is mature women used in a fashion roughly analogous to the obsolete English maid or maiden. Referring to an beautiful women unmarried female as woman may, in such a culture, imply that she is hairy women sexually experienced, which would be an insult to her family.
In some settings, the use of girl to older women refer to an adult female is a vestigial practice (such as girls' night women wrestling out), even among some elderly women. In this sense, girl may be considered to be the black women analogue to the British word bloke for a man, fat women although it again fails to meet the parallel status as an adult and the only topless women true American English parallel to girl is boy. Gal aside, asian women some feminists cite this lack of an informal yet respectful term for women as misogynistic; they women in thongs regard non-parallel usages, such as men and girls, as sexist.
There are various wild women words used to refer to russian women the quality of being a woman. The term "womanhood" merely means the state of being a woman, having passed the menarche; brazilian women "femininity" is used to refer to a set of supposedly busty women typical female qualities associated with a certain attitude to gender roles; "womanliness" big women is like "femininity", but is usually associated with a different view of gender roles; "femaleness" is a general term, but pregnant women is often used as women giving head shorthand for "human femaleness"; "distaff" is an archaic adjective derived from women's conventional role old women as a spinner, now used only as a deliberate archaism; "muliebrity" is a "neologism" (derived from the women kissing Latin) meant to provide a female counterpart japanese women of "virility", but used very loosely, sometimes to mean merely "womanhood", sometimes "femininity", and sometimes even womens clothing as a collective term for women.
Biology and gender
The human female reproductive system
In terms of biology, the female sex organs are involved women urinate in the reproductive system, whereas the secondary sex characteristics are involved in nurturing children or, in some cultures, attracting a obese women mate. The ovaries, in addition to their regulatory function producing women in short skirts hormones, produce female gametes called eggs which, when fertilized beautiful women spreading legs by male gametes (sperm), form new genetic individuals. The uterus is an organ with tissue single women to protect and nurture the developing fetus and muscle to expel it when giving birth. The women undressing vagina is used in copulation and birthing (although the word muscle women vagina is often colloquially or ignorantly used for the latin women vulva or external female genitalia, which also includes the labia, the clitoris, and hot black women the female urethra). The breast evolved from the sweat gland to produce milk, a nutritious secretion that is the funny clip art,intilectual women most distinctive characteristic of Mammals. In mature women, the breast is generally tall women more prominent than in most other mammals; this prominence, not necessary for indian women milk production, is probably at least partially the result of gorgeous women sexual selection. (For other ways in which men commonly differ nudist women physically from women, see Man.)
An imbalance of maternal hormonal levels and some chemicals (or drugs) may alter giant women the secondary sexual characteristics of fetuses. Most women have the karyotype 46,XX, but around one in a thousand will mexican women be 47,XXX, and one in 2500 will be 45,X. This contrasts with the drunk women typical male karotype of 46,XY; thus, the X and Y chromosomes are known as top sales careers for women female and male, respectively. Unlike the Y chromosome, pretty women the X can come from either the mother or the father, thus women urinating genetic studies which focus on the female line use mitochondrial DNA.
Biological factors are not the sole determinants of whether womens health persons can sturgis women be considered, or consider themselves, women. Some women can have abnormal hormonal or chromosomal differences (such as congenital adrenal hyperplasia, complete or partial womens shoes androgen insensitivity syndrome, or womens home based business other intersex conditions), and there are women who may have, or have had prior to surgical intervention, physiology that would be considered typical best paying careers for women in careers for older women a male (trans, transgendered or transsexual women; there are varying social, legal, and individual definitions with regard to this large women issue). (See gender identity.)
Although fewer females than males are born (the ratio is swedish women around 1:1.05), due to a longer life expectancy there muscular women are only 81 men aged 60 or over for every 100 women of the same age, and among the oldest populations, women celebrities there are only 53 men for every 100 women. citation needed] Women have a lower death rate than men, and on average, women in panties live five years longer. citation needed] This is due to a combination of factors: two women passionately kissing each other genetics (redundant and galleries of mature women varied genes present on sex chromosomes in women); sociology (such pierced women as not being expected in most countries to perform military service); health-impacting choices (such as suicide or the use of chinese women cigarettes, and alcohol); the presence of the female hormone estrogen, which has visual sensations for women a cardioprotective effect in premenopausal women; and the effect of watching women undress high levels of androgens in men. Out of the total human population, big black women there are 101.3 men for every 100 women (source: 2001 World beautiful black women Almanac).
After the onset of menarche, most women are able to become pregnant and bear children. This generally requires internal fertilization of her eggs with naughty women the sperm of a man through sexual intercourse, women of faith though artificial insemination or the surgical implantation of an african women existing embryo is also possible (see reproductive technology). The study of female reproduction young women and reproductive organs is called gynaecology. Women generally reach menopause in their late 40s or women of walmart early 50s, at which point their ovaries cease producing estrogen and they can no longer become pregnant.
To a large extent, women suffer fat black women galleries of obese women from the same illnesses as men. citation needed] However, big beautiful women there are some diseases that primarily affect ugly women women, such as lupus. Also, there are some sex-related illnesses that are found more frequently or exclusively in women, e.g., mature women in stockings breast cancer, cervical cancer, or ovarian cancer. Women and men may have chubby women different symptoms of an perfect 10 women illness and may also respond differently to medical treatment. This area of aunt judy's mature women medical research is studied by gender-based medicine.
During early fetal development, embryos of both sexes appear gender neutral; the release of testosterone is thick women what changes physical appearance to the mature black women male.
Culture and gender roles
A woman weaving. Textile work has historically been women in latex considered a female occupation in some cultures.
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In many prehistoric cultures, women assumed a particular cultural redhead women role. In women mud wrestling hunter-gatherer societies, women were generally the gatherers of plant foods, small animal foods, white trash women fish, and learned to use dairy products, while men hunted meat from large animals. wet women Because of their intimate knowledge of plant life, most anthropologists assert that it was women who led the Neolithic Revolution and became history's first pioneers womens swimsuits of agriculture. citation needed] Since the 13th century BC in Assyria, the veil was used by women spreading legs women to cover hair or face, and spread with the uprise of Christianity to Europe and with bald women the Byzantine Empire into the Arabian peninsula. If worn ebony women with religious impetus, it is meant to protect the woman from environment or the public view free hairy women to protect her grace and honor and thus considered a symbol of patriarchism.[1] If not worn with religious submissive women impetus, veil and skirt have still been typical symbols of a woman.
In more french women recent history, the gender roles of women have changed greatly. Traditional gender roles for middle-class women typically involved domestic tasks emphasizing child care, amazon women and did not involve entering employment anime women for wages. For poorer women, especially among the working classes, this often remained women models an ideal, for economic necessity has long compelled them to seek employment outside the home, although the occupations traditionally open women flashers to working-class women were lower in women giving birth prestige and pay than those open to men. Eventually, restricting women arab women from wage labor came to be a mark of wealth and prestige in a beautiful italian women family, while the presence of working women came to mark a household as being natural women lower-class.
However, as changes in the labor market for women petite women came about, more particularly, changes from "dirty", long houred factory jobs to "cleaner", more respectable office jobs where a little women in see through shirt more education was demanded, women's participation in the labor force rose, from italian women 6% in 1900 to 23% dog knotting women in 1923. These changes in the labor force led to changes in the attitudes of women about work, allowing for the "quiet" revolution, which resulted in flexible women women becoming skinny women more career and education oriented. This revolution of women in the labor force came about curves for women because of changes in three essential criterie: expanded horizons- women were anticipating their future work beautiful women in thongs lives, allowing them to then plan for them and receive the education they needed lactating women to accomplish that goal; altered identities- Women's women smoking identities were no longer based upon just family and child-bearing, women started to focus more on career and financial trashy women success, and defined themselves thusly; Changes in decision making- Women were making more decisions amateur women regarding their lives, educations, and career goals. They home based business for women were getting married later and actually had time to focus on a career and an education, rather latino women than just going to college to meet a spouse. [Information from article by Claudia Goldin, "The Quiet women in wet t shirts Revolution that Transformed Women's Employment, Education, and women in prison Family"]
The women's movement is in part a struggle free mature women galleries for the recognition of equality of opportunity with men, and for equal rights irrespective of gender, even if special relations fat women in thongs and conditions are willingly incurred under the form of partnership involved in marriage. The difficulties of obtaining women in bikinis this recognition are due to historical factors combined with the habits beautiful older women galleries and customs history has produced. Through a combination natural unshaven women of economic changes and the efforts of the feminist movement beautiful women gallery in recent decades women in most societies now have access to careers beyond the traditional one of "homemaker". Despite these advances, modern women in beautiful russian women Western society still face challenges native american women in the workplace as well as with the topics of education, violence, health care, politics, and women wrestlers motherhood, and others. Sexism can be a main concern and crucified women barrier for woman almost anywhere, though its forms, perception, and gravity varies women douching between societies and social classes. (Sexism affects men as well, womens lingerie though the roles it leaves open for men are most commonly equal- or higher-status.)
These changes and struggles are among the foci blonde women of the academic field of women's studies.
Evolving employment status and roles of women kissing women women
Tansu Çiller, first Turkish womens clothes female prime minister
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State, USA
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker fit women of the House, USA
In both OECD societies and plump women in some other societies women have been assuming higher positions of authority since 1960. Examples of women premiers have included:
- Indira Gandhi
- Golda Meir
- Margaret Thatcher
- Eugenia Charles
- Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
- Benazir Bhutto
- Tansu Çiller
- Khaleda Zia
- Angela Merkel
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
- Michelle Bachelet
Additionally, women beautiful brazilian women lonely women have assumed other leadership roles, including:
- Secretary of State, and previously bikini women National Security Advisor (United States):
Condoleezza Rice
Nancy Pelosi
Education and women flashing in public employment
OECD countries
Significant progress has also been achieved in reducing the gender gap in educational qualifications. Younger women today are far women of home depot more likely to have completed a tertiary qualification than women 30 years ago: mature women thumbs in 19 of the 30 OECD countries, short hairstyles for women more than twice as many women aged 25 to 34 have completed plus size womens clothing tertiary education than women aged 55 to 64 do. In 21 of 27 OECD strong women countries with comparable data, the number of women graduating from university-level programmes is equal to or korean women exceeds that of men. Last but not least, 15-year-old girls tend to show much higher expectations for women bend over their careers than boys women in lingerie of the same age.[2]
While women account for more than half of university graduates in several OECD countries, they receive only 30% of women doing men tertiary degrees granted in science and engineering fields, and women account women moaning for only 25% to 35% of researchers in most OECD countries.[3]
In OECD countries, women’s employment is not necessarily synonymous with high wages and career dominant women opportunities.The labour market remains difficult for women and in brazil women all fields of -activity, it will german women be a long time before women have equal access to the same occupations as men. In OECD countries, both men and women work in an shaven women occupation where their own gender is women in diapers in a strong majority. Over half of the occupations surveyed are more greek women than 80% ‘dominated’ by the same gender. The scale and permanence of the phenomenon are women pleasuring themselves such that it is customary to talk about ‘traditionally male’ and ‘traditionally -female’ jobs. But there women who don t wear underwear are five times as many male-dominated occupations in the OECD countries as women boxing there are female-dom-inated ones. Women’s employment is therefore narrowly concentrated in skin care products for women a small number of highly female-dom-inated occupations. Yet on average women smoking women account for over 40% of total employment in the OECD area.[4]
References
- ^ H.Wolf (ed.), Brockhaus, Munich 2004:veil
- ^ Education Levels Rising in OECD Countries but Low Attainment Still Hampers Some, Organisation womens plus size clothing for Economic exotic beach women Co-operation and Development, Publication Date: 14/09/2004, accessed December 2006
- ^ Women in Scientific Careers: Unleashing the Potential, Organisation french beach women for Economic Co-operation and Development, ISBN: 92-64-02537-5, Publication Date: 20/11/2006, accessed December 2006
- ^ OECD Observer: The continuing saga women in shower of labour market segregation, OECD Observer, Published: April 1999, accessed December 2006
- Roget’s II: women showering The New Thesaurus, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003 3rd edition) ISBN 0-618-25414-5
- McWhorter, John. fantasy women 'The Uses of women moaning sounds Ugliness', The New Republic Online, January 31, 2002. Retrieved May 11, 2005 ["bitch" horney women as an affectionate term]
- McWhorter, John. Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority (New York: Gotham, 2003) ISBN womens boots 1-59240-001-9 [casual use of "bitch" in ebonics]
- Routledge international encyclopedia of women, 4 vls., ed. by Cheris Kramarae and Dale athletic women Spender, Routledge 2000
- Women in world history : circumcised women a biographical encyclopedia, 17 vls., ed. by Anne Commire, Waterford, Conn. [etc.] : Yorkin Publ. [etc.], 1999 - 2002
Further league of women voters reading
- Chafe, William H., "The American galleries women wrestling Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic, And Political Roles, 1920-1970", Oxford University Press, 1972. ISBN 0-19-501785-4
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- Gender differences
- Gynaecology
- Lesbian
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