A woman generally has a wider pelvis, broader hips, and larger breasts than a man. These characteristics can facilitate pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding.

The menopause usually starts in the late forties, and ends in the early fifties. Between these ages, women go through a menstrual cycle, once a month. If such a woman has sex with a man, at …

The symbol of the Roman goddess Venus is used to represent the female sex in biology. [1] An organism 's sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete …

The legal status of women in the United States has advanced significantly over the past two centuries, but not yet equal to that of men in comparison to other high-income democracies. In …

The first woman of any color to speak on political issues in public, Stewart gave her last public speech in 1833 before retiring from public speaking to work in women's organizations.

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, God "is neither man nor woman: he is God". [84] Several recent writers, such as feminist theologian Sallie McFague, have explored the …

Second-wave feminism developed several alternative political spellings of the word woman, especially womyn. [1] Keridwen Luis, a sociologist at Brandeis University, states that feminists …