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The study of the lives of women in classical Athens has been a significant part of classical scholarship since the 1970s. The knowledge of Athenian women's lives comes from a variety of ancient sources. Much of it is literary evidence, primarily from tragedy, comedy, and oratory; supplemented with archaeological sources such as epigraphy and ...
There have been various historical accounts of females participating in battle. This article lists instances of women recorded as participating in ancient warfare, from the beginning of written records to approximately 500 CE. Contemporary archaeological research regularly provides better insight into the accuracy of ancient historical accounts.
Cassandra was a daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her elder brother was Hector, the hero of the Greek- Trojan War. The older and most common versions of the myth state that she was admired by the god Apollo, who sought to win her love by means of the gift of seeing the future.
v. t. e. Women in ancient and imperial China were restricted from participating in various realms of social life, [1] through social stipulations that they remain indoors, whilst outside business should be conducted by men. [2] The strict division of the sexes, apparent in the policy that "men plow, women weave" (Chinese: 男耕女織 ...
In 2017 she was a plenary speaker at the Women in Physics Canada meeting. [35] Prescod-Weinstein has contributed popular science articles for Scientific American, [36] [37] Slate, [38] American Scientist, Nature Astronomy, [39] Bitch media, [40] and Physics World. [41] She is on the Book Review Board of Physics Today and was editor-in-chief of ...
The ordination of women to ministerial or priestly office is an increasingly common practice among some contemporary major religious groups. [ 2 ] It remains a controversial issue in certain religious groups in which ordination [ a ] was traditionally reserved for men. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ][ b ]
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
The Green Party has run a female candidate for president four times: Cynthia McKinney in 2008 and Jill Stein in 2012, 2016, and 2024. Stein's 1.5 million votes in 2016 represent the third-largest total for a female presidential candidate in U.S. history as of 2024. Pat LaMarche in 2004, Rosa Clemente in 2008, Cheri Honkala in 2012, and Angela ...