female

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In a University of Nevada, Las Vegas, oral-history interview, Duncan described popping into the Department of Housing and Urban Development one day and finding a room full of female bureaucrats, instead of men.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Fisher was was Britain's only female Royal Navy commando having completed a 13-week All Arms Commando Course.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Two neighborhoods treated by the Greater Los Angeles Vector Control District saw a more than 80% reduction in the female Aedes aegypti population in 2024 and 2025.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Where the former implemented carefully considered, brief glimpses of its female lead to shade her character’s textures, “Obsession” stops caring about Nikki the moment her silhouette is completed.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

But it hadn’t stuck, and because of that I’d failed the simulation again, and the daughter of the first-ever female commander in chief of the Glitch Academy wasn’t supposed to fail.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin