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  2. Women in Maya society - Wikipedia

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    Women play a significant role in rituals, cooking food for consumption and sacrifice. Whether women participated in said rituals is unknown. Women also worked on all of the textiles, an essential resource, and product for Maya society. The status of women in Maya society can be inferred from their burials and textual and monumental history.

  3. Images of a Woman - Wikipedia

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    Images of a Woman was painted over three nights in July 1966 in a Tokyo Hilton suite where all four of the Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) were staying as part of their tour of the Far East. The group had been placed in lockdown as a precaution by the Japanese authorities after death threats had been ...

  4. Dr. MGR-Janaki College of Arts and Science for Women

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    Dr. MGR-Janaki College of Arts and Science for Women is a college for women in the Sathyabama MGR Maligai Campus in Chennai.V. N. Janaki Ramachandran, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, help found the college in memory of her husband Bharat Ratna Dr. M.G. Ramachandran, and is currently managed and administered by the Directors of Sathya Studios Private Limited.

  5. International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

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    The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Resolution 54/134). [1] The premise of the day is to raise awareness around the world that women are subjected to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence; furthermore, one of the aims of the day is to highlight that the scale and true nature of the ...

  6. Women's March (South Africa) - Wikipedia

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    The march took place on 9 August 1956 with an estimated 20,000 women of all races descending on Pretoria. [2]: 4 The day of the protest was called for on a Thursday, the traditional day when black domestic workers had their day off, with the aim of ensuring a larger gathering of women.

  7. Elizabeth Holmes - Wikipedia

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    Forbes listed her as one of U.S. Richest Self-Made Women in 2015 with a net worth of $4.5 billion. [40] In June 2016, Forbes released an updated valuation of $800 million for Theranos, which made Holmes's stake essentially worthless, because other investors owned preferred shares and would have been paid before Holmes, who owned only common ...

  8. Porn for women - Wikipedia

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    Porn for women, [1] [2] women's porn [2] or women's pornography [3] is pornography aimed specifically at the female market, and often produced by women. [1] [2] [4] It rejects the view that pornography is only for men, [2] [5] [6] and seeks to make porn that women enjoy watching instead of what is being offered in male-centric mainstream pornography.

  9. Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women - Wikipedia

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    Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), also known as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and more broadly as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) or Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP), are instances of violence against Indigenous women in Canada and the United States, [1] [2] notably those in the First nations in Canada and Native American ...