Female, also known as Woman, Gal or Girl (diminutive) is a gender which is part of the Western gender binary. It is often associated with femininity and a connection to girlhood or femininity, as defined by one's society. It includes cisgender, transgender, genderqueer and non-binary women. Some non-binary individuals may have a partial connection to femininity or being a woman, in which case they may identify as a non-binary woman, woman-aligned and/or fiaspec.
Woman is a term used for adults, while girl is used for children and teenagers. Gal is used as a casual word for women, typically younger woman. Female is also used sometimes as a synonym for woman, however "female" can also be used to denote sexual traits, as such it is typically considered overly clinical for casual conversation. "Female" is also sometimes used to exclude transfeminine individuals or reduce women to their genitalia. The term wifgender was coined to encompass all the various words for womanhood.
Individuals who were assigned female at birth are often raised with the expectation that they will identify as women, although not all AFAB individuals are women and not all woman were AFAB. Identifying as a woman is often associated with a feminine gender expression and gender role, however not all women present femininely and not all who present femininely are women.
Flags & Symbols[]
The astronomical symbol for Venus is the most common symbol for females. It represents the hand mirror of the Roman goddess of love, or possible a distaff or necklace. It is also the alchemical symbol for copper.
The woman flag was designed by Tumblr user Trintinic on December 29, 2017. The dark pink represents those who are binary women, light pink represent those who identify partially as women and white represents multigender individuals who have female as one of their genders.
The female flag was designed by acro-pluris on September 18, 2020 based on a stamp by DeviantArt user silencethefox. There is no known meaning.