Woman

Species

Homo sapiens

Genus

Homo

Familia

Hominidae

Figure

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  Woman: Detail from an Pioneer 11 spacecraft Picture
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Face

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  Naomi Campbell
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  Woman of Jammu and Kashmir
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  Lee Remick
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  Kayaw woman
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  Grace Hopper
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  Maasai woman
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  Indian woman
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  Arundhati Roy
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  Aishwarya Rai
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  G.NA
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  Siti Nurhaliza
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  Himba woman
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  Aung San Suu Kyi
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  Manal al-Sharif
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  Iranian woman
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  Quechua woman
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  Petra Martić
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  Agata Kornhauser-Duda

Women of different cultures

Western

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  A French musician in a music festival
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  An Italian nurse during the COVID-19 pandemic
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  A Swedish basketball player
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  An American singer in a rock concert
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  An African-American woman
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  An infant, his mother, his maternal grandmother, and his great-grandmother
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  A Polish actresses in the musical "Cats"
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  A singer with a back tattoo
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  A German woman applying nail polish
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  An Italian Government Minister
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  A newscaster from Austria
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  An American bride
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  A microbiologist at work
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  A member of the Calgary Police Service
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  The American astronaut Kalpana Chawla
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  Women in the United States Air Force
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  Women playing football (soccer)

Asia

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  Kurdish family from Iranian Kurdistan
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  Karen tribal woman in traditional clothes sitting and sewing, in Thailand.
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  Indian girl during traditional face-painting ritual
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  An elderly Tibetan women
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  A Chinese chess grandmaster
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  A Tamil woman working in a tea plantation in Sri Lanka
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  An Hindu bride
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  A smiling woman, member of the Ramnami Samaj in India
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  A woman from the Ādivāsī indigenous people in India
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  The Iranian-American astronaut Anousheh Ansari
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  Woman cultivating rice in Indonesia
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  Afghani nurse treating a child with a woman wearing burqa
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  Woman weaving (Bangladesh)
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  A Chinese young woman selling rabbits
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  Japanese women wearing kimono
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  Miss South Korea 2008
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  Singapore Airlines flight attendants
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  Pepo woman (right) (Taiwan)
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  Two women from Thailand
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  (Vietnam)
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  Mumbai woman in red and blue (India)
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  Vietnamese women in áo dài, a national costume for women

Americas

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  Señora de Cao
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  Old lady from Zacatecas, Mexico
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  Araucanian women (Chile)
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  Nunivak mother with child (North America)
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  Rigoberta Menchú
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  Military Police Woman from National Bolivarian army

Africa

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  A South-african singer
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  A Himba woman in Namibia
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  A Nama women smoking in Namibia
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  A Hamar youg woman in Ethiopia
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  An elderly Gambian woman wearing a hijab
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  A Maasai women in traditional clothing and jewellery in Tanzania

See also: Native Americans photographed by Edward Sheriff Curtis

Historically important

Artists and writers

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  Su Hui
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  Sappho
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  Hildegard von Bingen
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  Mirabai
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  Jane Austen
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  Emily Dickinson
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  Helen Keller
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  Agatha Christie
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  Amrita Pritam
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  Coco Chanel
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  Anne Frank
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  Germaine Greer
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  Sirindhorn
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  J. K. Rowling

Business

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  Helena Rubinstein
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  Güler Sabancı
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  Oprah Winfrey
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  Jade Raymond

Political

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  Hatshepsut
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  Cleopatra
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  Boudica
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  Zenobia
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  Wu Zetian
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  Theophanu
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  Olga of Kiev
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  Eleanor of Aquitaine
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  Tamar of Georgia
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  Isabel I de Castilla
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  Catherine de' Medici
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  Elizabeth I of England
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  Christina of Sweden
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  Catherine the Great
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  Madame Mère
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  Gowri Parvati Bayi
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  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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  Queen Victoria
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  Rosa Luxemburg
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  Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
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  Rosa Parks
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  Queen Elizabeth II
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  Indira Gandhi
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  Eva Perón
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  Margaret Thatcher
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  Tansu Çiller
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  Wangari Maathai
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  Betty Williams
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  Shirin Ebadi
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  Benazir Bhutto
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  Diana, Princess of Wales
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  Theresa May
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  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Religion

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  Eve and Virgin Mary
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  Hagar
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  Queen of Sheba
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  Mary Magdalene
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  Junia (Apostel)
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  Saint Theodora
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  Fatima
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  Machik Labdron
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  Saint Nino
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  St Catherine of Alexandria (with sword) with Sts Elizabeth of Hungary (with crown) and Dorothy (with flowers)
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  Saint Apollonia, Saint Agata and Saint Lucy
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  Catherine of Siena
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  Virgo inter Virgines
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  Teresa of Ávila
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  Jeanne d'Arc
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  Izabela Wiłucka
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  Regina Jonas
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  Mother Teresa
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  Mata Amritanandamayi
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  Acharya Chandana
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  Maria Jepsen
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  Cheng Yen

Science and engineering

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  Ban Zhao
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  Hypatia
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  Trotula of Salerno
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  Maria Sibylla Merian
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  Caroline Herschel
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  Ada Lovelace
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  Giuseppina Cattani
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  Florence Nightingale
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  Marie Curie
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  Hedy Lamarr
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  Valentina Tereshkova
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  Shirley Ann Jackson
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  Elizabeth Blackburn
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  Athene Donald
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  Anousheh Ansari
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  Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
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  Margaret Hamilton

Sport

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  Suzanne Lenglen
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  Colette Besson
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  Věra Čáslavská
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  Billie Jean King
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  Serena Williams
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  Peggy Fleming
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  Tegla Loroupe
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  Li Ju
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  Marit Bjørgen
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  Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
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  Valentina Vezzali
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  Alena Zavarzina

Women's rights

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  Mary Wollstonecraft
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  Margaret Fuller
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  Susan B. Anthony
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  Emmeline Pankhurst
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  Emily Murphy
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  Kate Sheppard
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  Helene Stöcker
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  Annie Wood Besant
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  Millicent Fawcett
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  Betty Friedan
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  Alice Schwarzer

Symbols

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  Venus symbol
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  Venus symbol
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  Toilet sign
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  pregnant women symbol
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  "Female" and/or "woman" symbols in various cultural or historical contexts

See also

• Man