Feminism

A fembot is a humanoid robot that is gendered feminine.

Mercury 13 refers to thirteen American women who, as part of a privately funded program, underwent some of the same physiological screening tests as the astronauts selected by NASA on April 9, 1959 for Project Mercury.

Láadan is a feminist constructed language created by Suzette Haden Elgin in 1982 to test the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, specifically to determine if development of a language aimed at expressing the views of women would shape a culture; a subsidiary hypothesis was that Western natural languages may be better suited for expressing the views of men than women.

Sarojini Sahoo (Odia: ସରୋଜିନୀ ସାହୁ) (born 1956) is an Orissa Sahitya Academy Award winner Indian feminist writer, a columnist in The New Indian Express and associate editor of Chennai-based English magazine Indian AGE, who has been enlisted among 25 Exceptional Women of India by Kindle Magazine of Kolkata.

Suffragettes were members of women's organisations in the late-19th and early-20th centuries which advocated the extension of the "franchise", or the right to vote in public elections, to women.

International Day of the Girl Child is an international observance day declared by the United Nations; it is also called the Day of the Girl and the International Day of the Girl.

Feminist theology is a movement found in several religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and New Thought, to reconsider the traditions, practices, scriptures, and theologies of those religions from a feminist perspective.

Abortion-rights movements advocate for legal access to induced abortion services.

Iveković was born in Zagreb in 1949, when it was still part of Yugoslavia under the dictatorship of Marshal Josip Broz Tito.

Strong Medicine is a medical drama with a focus on feminist politics, health issues and class conflict, that aired on the Lifetime network from 2000 to 2006.

Sexual objectification is the act of treating a person as an instrument of sexual pleasure.

The feminist sex wars, also known as the lesbian sex wars, or simply the sex wars or porn wars, are terms used to refer to collective debates amongst feminists regarding a number of issues broadly relating to sexuality and sexual activity.

Radical feminism is a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical reordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts.

The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago.

Ecofeminism is a term that links feminism with ecology.

("Woman hater" redirects here. For other uses, see Woman Hater (disambiguation).) Misogyny (/mɪˈsɒdʒɪni/) is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls.

The protests yielded little success, however, so the Guerrilla Girls embarked upon a postering campaign throughout New York City, particularly in the SoHo and East Village neighborhoods.

The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir.

Margaret Fell or Margaret Fox (1614 – 23 April 1702) was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends.

OYSS Women is a non-profit organization engaged in empowering women in India.

Ranjana Khanna is a literary critic and theorist recognized for her interdisciplinary, feminist and internationalist contributions to the fields of post-colonial studies, feminist theory, literature and political philosophy.

War on Women is an expression in United States politics used to describe certain Republican Party policies and legislation as a wide-scale effort to restrict women's rights, especially reproductive rights.

A women's shelter, also known as a women's refuge and battered women's shelter, is a place of temporary protection and support for women escaping domestic violence and intimate partner violence of all forms.

Dialogue for Hungary (Hungarian: Párbeszéd Magyarországért, PM), also known its shortened form Dialogue since September 2016, is a Hungarian green liberal political party, formed in February 2013, after having the Dialogue for Hungary Platform of the Politics Can Be Different (LMP) and eight MPs left the LMP party and established their new organization.

Carolyn Korsmeyer (born 1950) is an author and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buffalo in New York.

Women for Human Rights is an organisation which works to secure the political, social, cultural and economic rights of single women in Nepal.

Dr. Shelly Grabe is an Associate Professor in Social Psychology at the University of California Santa Cruz, where she has affiliations with Feminist Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies.

Patty Harrison and Robin Tyler are a feminist comedy duo, noted as the first lesbian feminist comedy act.

Vag Magazine is an American feminist themed comedy web series starring Kate McKinnon.

Bund Schweizerischer Frauenvereine, commonly abbreviated to BSF, is the Federation of Swiss Women's Associations, since 2011 also known as alliance F.

() #NotAllMen is a feminist internet meme.

Feminism and GIS refers to the use of geographic information system (GIS) for feminist research and also how women influence GIS at technological stages.

Rosie Rosenzweig is a resident scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center.

Gender Park is an autonomous institution promoted by the Department of Social Justice, Government of Kerala State, India, to resolve the gender inequity in development.

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (2005) is a book by Ariel Levy which critiques the highly sexualized American culture in which women are objectified, objectify one another, and are encouraged to objectify themselves.

Feminism has affected culture in many ways, and has famously been theorised in relation to culture by Angela McRobbie, Laura Mulvey and others.

The European Commission defines the gender pay gap as the average difference between men's and women's aggregate hourly earnings.

Women as theological figures have played a significant role in the development of various religions and religious hierarchies.

Irene Dölling (also known as Irene Mayer-Dölling) (born 23 December 1942) is a German sociologist.

Topfreedom is a cultural and political movement seeking changes in laws to allow women to be topless in public places where men are permitted to be barechested, as a form of gender equality.

Sherene Razack (pronunciation: /ʃəriːn ræzæk/) is a Canadian postcolonial feminist scholar, author, and activist of West Indian origin.

Women's studies is an interdisciplinary field of academic study that examines gender as a social and cultural construct, the social status and contributions of women, and the relationships between power and gender.

Women of the World Festival (WOW) is a UK based festival that celebrates the achievements of women and girls as well as looking at the obstacles they face across the world.

The 100 years of women in transport campaign (YOWIT) is a celebration of the significant role that women have played in the transport industry over the past 100 years in the United Kingdom, following the centennial anniversary of the First World War, when 100,000 women entered the transport industry to take on the responsibilities held by men who enlisted for military service.

The history of feminism is the chronological narrative of the movements and ideologies aimed at equal rights for women.

Alison Assiter, FRSA, FAcSS is the Professor of Feminist Theory at the University of the West of England.

Maharat is a term for a female leader in Judaism.

Justine Schiavo-Hunt (born September 9, 1966) is an American photojournalist and newspaper photographer.

The Honour for Women National Campaign is a nationwide movement in India to end violence against women.

The Skinny is a 2016 web series starring Jessie Kahnweiler and Illeana Douglas and produced by Jill Soloway.

International Women's Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women's Day, is celebrated on March 8 every year.

Rose Sidgwick (Rugby, 1877- New York, 1918), was a British university teacher and one of the founders of the International Federation of University Women.

The counterculture of the 1960s refers to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) and then spread throughout much of the Western world between the early 1960s and the mid-1970s, with London, New York City, and San Francisco being hotbeds of early countercultural activity.

Jennifer Hornsby (born 1951) is a British philosopher with interests in the philosophies of mind, action, language, as well as feminist philosophy.