Women
Women are the female of the human species, with the biological role of bearing offspring (pregnancy and childbirth). In preparation for this role, women's breasts begin to grow at puberty, forming the most obvious physical difference between women and men other than the reproductive organs. Other differences include a layer of subcutaneous fat under the skin which hides the underlying musculature, and a wider pelvis to facilitate carrying the baby and allowing it to be born. Women also have a greater proportion of fine vellus hair over certain areas of their skin (such as their face and legs) than the coarse terminal hair which appears on men.[Citation Needed]
Men have typically two times more upper body strength than women, and around 50% more leg strength. [1] Women have slightly longer average lifespans than men, which results in women overtaking men in population by middle age despite a 1.05:1 boy to girl ratio at birth in the United States. This rate varies among countries.[Citation Needed]
Women in history
Compared to men, fewer women have had impact on history as leaders in diverse fields, but large numbers of women have still had enormous impact. Historians usually attribute this lack of impact to the centuries old oppression women faced.[Citation Needed]
Such examples include
- Queen Isabella I of Spain
- French heroine St. Joan of Arc
- Queen Esther
- Mary of Gailele
- Mary Magdelene
- Judge Deborah
- Judith
- Pime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher
- Queen Elizabeth I of England
- Warrior Celtic Queen Boudicca of the Iceni tribe
- Empress Tsarina Catherine the Great of Russia
- Pharoah Cleopatra of Egypt
- Nobel Pize-winning physicist and chemist Marie Curie
- Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, the first woman to lead an Islamic state
- Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir
- Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi
- United States women's rights activist Lucretia Mott
- United States women's rightsSusan B. Anthony
- Nobel Peace Prize winner, activist and Prime Minister-elect Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma
- Mother Theresa
- United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
- United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Queen Catherine de Medici of France
- Queen Olympias of Greece
- Queen Gorgo of Sparta
- Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State
- Madonna Ciccone, entertainer
- Madeleine Korbel Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
- Eleanor Roosevelt, United Nations Representative, First Lady, and human rights, civil rights, women's right, and equal rights activist
- Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad conductor
- Eva Peron, Argentine leader
References
- ↑ College women have 50 to 60 percent of the arm and shoulder strength and 70 percent of the leg strength of their male counterparts. Human Kinetics
Related Topics
- Men
- Egalitarian and complementarian theology