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Also known as women, lady, adult woman, female adult human, adult human female

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Woman is a term described by the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Gujin Tushu Jicheng, and Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. It is the opposite of man and follows girl. The subject is said to be the same as womyn and womxn. It is distinct from Dame, Frau, and wife.

The term has characteristics including the female human reproductive system, menstrual cycle, fertility, and female body shape. A Unicode character for the subject is 👩. It is associated with the Commons category Women and gallery Woman. The hashtag woman is used in relation to the topic.

In academic contexts, the query woman appears in PubMed with a count of 1969990. The topic is referenced by 2,332 other encyclopedia articles. It is maintained by WikiProject Women and falls under the main category Category:Women.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Research

1,969,990 papers

A woman's place: unpaid work in the home.ReviewThe American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association · 1992Primeau LADOI: 10.5014/ajot.46.11.981
Women's health from a woman's point of view: a review of the literature.ReviewHealth care for women international · 1986Lempert LBDOI: 10.1080/07399338609515739
Woman's work.Midwifery today with international midwife · 2004Molnar C
The maternal-fetal rights dilemma: honoring a woman's choice of medical care during pregnancy.ReviewThe Journal of contemporary health law and policy · 1996Arch RR
The correlation among pregnant woman's education level with knowledge and behaviour on readiness toward COVID-19 pandemic.Enfermeria clinica · 2022Kiftia M, Rizkia M, Ardhia D et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.enfcli.2022.03.014
Commentary. The social construction of 'woman's work': nursing labour and status.ReviewJournal of nursing management · 2005Brennan DDOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2934.2005.00569.x
One woman's journey to equity.Lancet (London, England) · 2017DeAngelis CDOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31720-8
Dr Agnes Savill: Pioneer, polymath and dermatology's renaissance woman.Journal of medical biography · 2024Creamer DDOI: 10.1177/09677720221106794

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A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl.

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