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Women are 50% less likely to access the Internet than men in poor urban communities.

According to a U.K. study, the average woman spends 17 years of her life dieting.

One of the first woman in the world to receive an academic degree and the first to receive a Ph.D. degree did it in 1678 in Padua, Italy.

An extra year of education can help a girl earn 20% more as an adult.

The first female governor of a U.S. state was elected in 1924.

In the U.S., it's estimated that women account for 85% of consumer spending.

 It is possible to determine a person's gender from a fingerprint. Women secrete twice as many amino acids as men and in a distinct distribution, studies say.

Gender equality in the workplace could add US$4.3 trillion to the U.S. economy by 2025, a 2016 study found.

In the 19th century, doctors treated hysteria in women by inducing orgasms. This is how the vibrator was invented.

Over 200 women have run for President of the United States.

1 in 4 women between 16 and 24 have harmed themselves, a survey in England suggests.

The average woman generates 300 pounds of tampon trash in her lifetime.

St Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman.

Women who get breast implants are 3 times more likely to commit suicide.

 In developing countries, women are half as likely as men to speak out online.

Oxytocin is believed to have a more significant impact on women than on men, which may be why women associate sexual attraction or sexual activity with romance and love more than men do.

Just HALF of women surveyed in the UK could locate the vagina on a diagram of the female reproductive system.

30% of adult women surveyed reported they had some pain the last time they had sex.

The first computer programmers were women.

 In the 1920's and early 1930's, women dominated the screenwriting profession in Hollywood's movies.

Men sweat up to twice as much as women.

The United Arab Emirates has the biggest gender imbalance in the world, with 219 men for every 100 women.

Shorter women have shorter pregnancies, a study found.

Miami is the only major U.S. city that was founded by a woman.

In middle school, 74% of girls express interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, but when choosing a college major, just 0.4% of high school girls select computer science.

The smallest wage gap between men and women is to be found in New Zealand: under 5%.

 Only 2% of women describe themselves as beautiful.

Women blink 19 times per minute, compared to 11 for men.

Women in Niger have an average of 7 children, the world's highest rate.

Over 80% of women wear the wrong bra size.

The average woman in the UK has 150 different hairstyles in her lifetime.

Women experience significantly more nightmares than men and have more emotional dreams, a research found.

Despite popular belief, studies show men are not more flatulent than women.

Jamaica, Colombia and St Lucia are the only countries where a woman is more likely to be a boss than a man.

 Only half of women in developing regions receive the recommended amount of health care they need for maternity.

Bras make breasts sag, according to a French study published in 2013.

A woman's vaginal muscles can take up to 6 months to get back to their normal shape and size after childbirth.

After an Islamic cleric blamed women who dress provocatively for earthquakes in 2010, 100,000 women joined for a "Boobquake" to test the theory. Nothing happened.

Breastfeeding actually changes the way a mother's brain works, making her more attuned to the child's crying.

 90% of Iceland's female population went on strike on October 24, 1975, demanding equal rights. They did not work, do housework, or look after their kids for an entire day.

Today's human population is descended from twice as many women as men. About 80% of women reproduced, whereas only 40% of men did.

In Northern Ireland, women earn 3.4% more than men on average.

The sign for the female sex (♀) represents the hand mirror of Aphrodite, the greek goddess of beauty.

Women have larger pupils than men.

 An average woman in the UK will own 111 handbags in her lifetime.

of pregnant women crave nonfood items, an eating disorder called pica.

40,000 U.S. women might be allergic to male ejaculate.

Women can get pregnant even 5 to 8 days after having sex.

Women think about their appearance 9 times a day, a UK survey found.

Women were first allowed to participate in the Olympic Games in 1900.

Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women.

 Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

The woman who underwent the world's first successful womb transplant became pregnant in 2013.

Women have more taste buds than men.

Women who snore during pregnancy are more likely to have smaller babies, according to a study.

Some women can have a genetic mutation which causes them to see millions of more colors.

Taller women are more likely to get cancer, according to a study.

 In Russia there are 9 million more Women than men.

40% of births in the U.S. come from unmarried women.

Women spend nearly one year of their lives deciding what to wear.

Women cry on average between 30 and 64 times a year while men cry between 6 and 17 times.

Men lie 6 times a day, twice as often as women.

Men were the first to wear high heels around the 1600s. Women began wearing them to look more masculine.

Instead of chest pains, heart attacks in women have nausea, indigestion, and shoulder aches.

 Anxiety, depression, phobias or obsessive compulsive disorder affect 26% of UK women ages 16 to 24.

America's first female mayor was elected in 1887. A group of men nominated her as a prank, but she won over 60% of the vote

Over 80 women have been elected or appointed as head of government of their respective countries.

Over 50 women were elected for president or prime minister in modern history.

Dirty water kills more women worldwide than diabetes, AIDS, or breast cancer.

 Women speak about 20,000 words a day. That's 13,000 more than the average man.

Women in ancient Rome wore the sweat of Gladiators to improve their beauty and complexion.

The average woman in the UK owns 19 pairs of shoes, but wears only 7.