Shred Room 57: Spilling Soup On The Velvet Suit

Women in different parts of the world dress in different ways. In hunter-gatherer societies, women were generally the gatherers of plant foods, small animal foods and fish, while men hunted meat from large animals. During World War II, some women performed roles which would otherwise have been considered male jobs by the culture of the time. In the 1970s, many female academics, including scientists, avoided having children. World literacy is lower for females than for males.

"Woman" may also refer to a person's gender identity. Regarding gender, Simone de Beauvoir said: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one". Women with typical genetic development are usually capable of giving birth from puberty until menopause. The vagina is used in copulation and birthing, although the term vagina is often colloquially and incorrectly used in the English language for the vulva or external female genitalia, which consists of (in addition to the vagina) the labia, the clitoris, and the female urethra. In mature women, the breast is generally more prominent than in most other mammals.