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Pages in category "Women and sexuality". The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. Human female sexuality.
A woman is an adult female human. [a][2][3] Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl. [4] Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and fertile women are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation ...
In mammals, the vulva (pl.: vulvas or vulvae) consists of the external female genitalia and an inner portion extending to the vaginal and urinary openings. For humans, it includes the mons pubis, labia majora, labia minora, clitoris, vestibule, urinary meatus, vaginal introitus, hymen, and openings of the vestibular glands (Bartholin's and Skene's).
The uterus or womb is the major female reproductive organ. The uterus provides mechanical protection, nutritional support, and waste removal for the developing embryo (weeks 1 to 8) and fetus (from week 9 until the delivery). In addition, contractions in the muscular wall of the uterus are important in pushing out the fetus at the time of birth.
This category has the following 39 subcategories, out of 39 total. Women by behavior (5 C) Women by century (54 C) Women by city (75 C) Women by continent (18 C) Women by country (237 C, 113 P) Women by culture (1 C, 1 P) Women by ethnicity (44 C) Women by nationality (259 C)
Denoting the gamete (sex cell) that, during sexual reproduction, fuses with a male gamete in the process of fertilization. Female gametes are generally larger than the male gametes and are usually immotile (see Oosphere; Ovum). 2. (Denoting) an individual organism whose reproductive organs produce only female gametes.
Human female sexuality encompasses a broad range of behaviors and processes, including female sexual identity and sexual behavior, the physiological, psychological, social, cultural, political, and spiritual or religious aspects of sexual activity. Various aspects and dimensions of female sexuality, as a part of human sexuality, have also been ...
In April 2011, the Wikimedia Foundation conducted its first survey, revealing that less than 13% of its contributors are female. In the last years, efforts to increase female editorship are to be underlined such as dedicated edit-a-thons to increase the coverage of women's topics in Wikipedia and to encourage more women to edit Wikipedia.