Woman
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A Woman is an female human who is an adult female.
- AKA: Female Person.
- Context:
- They can range from being a Young Woman to being a Middle-Aged Woman to being an Older Woman.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Female, Gender Identity, Intersex, Human, Adult, Girl, Child, Adolescence, Women's Rights.
References
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman Retrieved:2017-11-18.
- A woman is a female human being. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. The term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as “women's rights”. Women with typical genetic development are usually capable of giving birth from puberty until menopause. With regard to gender, a woman may also be a person whose sex assignment does not align with their gender identity,[1] or those who have sexual characteristics that do not fit typical notions of male or female (intersex).
- ↑ Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Social Work Practice, edited by Deana F. Morrow and Lori Messinger (2006, ), page 8: "Gender identity refers to an individual's personal sense of identity as [man] or [woman], or some combination thereof."
2015
- (Su & Rounds, 2015) ⇒ Rong Su, and James Rounds. (2015). “All STEM Fields Are Not Created Equal: People and Things Interests Explain Gender Disparities Across STEM Fields.” In: Frontiers in psychology, 6.
- QUOTE: The degree of women's underrepresentation varies by STEM fields. Women are now overrepresented in social sciences, yet only constitute a fraction of the engineering workforce. In the current study, we investigated the gender differences in interests as an explanation for the differential distribution of women across sub-disciplines of STEM as well as the overall underrepresentation of women in STEM fields. Specifically, we meta-analytically reviewed norm data on basic interests from 52 samples in 33 interest inventories published between 1964 and 2007, with a total of 209, 810 male and 223,268 female respondents. We found gender differences in interests to vary largely by STEM field, with the largest gender differences in interests favoring men observed in engineering disciplines (d = 0.83-1.21), and in contrast, gender differences in interests favoring women in social sciences and medical services (d = -0.33 and -0.40, respectively). Importantly, the gender composition (percentages of women) in STEM fields reflects these gender differences in interests. The patterns of gender differences in interests and the actual gender composition in STEM fields were explained by the people-orientation and things-orientation of work environments, and were not associated with the level of quantitative ability required. These findings suggest potential interventions targeting interests in STEM education to facilitate individuals' ability and career development and strategies to reform work environments to better attract and retain women in STEM occupations.